A SILK KOUM KAPI HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN PRAYER RUG, the raspberry-red field with meandering arabesques and delicate scrolling vines issuing palmettes and open flowerheads, an inscription cartouche above, the blackcurrant-red mihrab arch framed by a mustard-yellow inscription band enclosing a counterposed design of twin baluster vases issuing leaves surrounded by open flowerheads and palmettes, in a buff border of scrolling palmette arabesques and flowerheads around inscription cartouches and blackcurrant roundels between blackcurrant-red and moss-green inscription cartouches and floral stripes, plain kilim strip at each end, signed 'Hagop' in two places

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A SILK KOUM KAPI HAGOP KAPOUDJIAN PRAYER RUG, the raspberry-red field with meandering arabesques and delicate scrolling vines issuing palmettes and open flowerheads, an inscription cartouche above, the blackcurrant-red mihrab arch framed by a mustard-yellow inscription band enclosing a counterposed design of twin baluster vases issuing leaves surrounded by open flowerheads and palmettes, in a buff border of scrolling palmette arabesques and flowerheads around inscription cartouches and blackcurrant roundels between blackcurrant-red and moss-green inscription cartouches and floral stripes, plain kilim strip at each end, signed 'Hagop' in two places
6ft.4in. x 4ft.3in. (193cm. x 130cm.)
Literature
Harrow, L.W. (ed.): Oriental Rugs in Private Collections, London, 1982, no.187
Farrow, G.F.: Hagop Kapoudjian, London, 1993, p.57

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