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WEST ANATOLIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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A MASSIVE USHAK CARPET
West Anatolia, early 20th century
The shaded tomato-red field with a tomato-red and turquoise elongated central medallion with boteh vine and leafy tendrils, the turquoise pendant palmettes above and below linked by flowering tendrils, all in a scrolling leafy and cartouche panel frame, in a broad turquoise palmette, cartouche and flowering vine border between ivory and pistachio-green leafy meander stripes, plain tomato-red outer stripe, short original kilim strip at both ends with partial loss to fringes, full pile throughout, small repairs in outer stripe
31ft. x 14ft.7in. (944cm. x 444cm.)
West Anatolia, early 20th century
The shaded tomato-red field with a tomato-red and turquoise elongated central medallion with boteh vine and leafy tendrils, the turquoise pendant palmettes above and below linked by flowering tendrils, all in a scrolling leafy and cartouche panel frame, in a broad turquoise palmette, cartouche and flowering vine border between ivory and pistachio-green leafy meander stripes, plain tomato-red outer stripe, short original kilim strip at both ends with partial loss to fringes, full pile throughout, small repairs in outer stripe
31ft. x 14ft.7in. (944cm. x 444cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 April 1996, lot 178.
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