PROBABLY KARABAGH, SOUTH CAUCASUS, 17TH CENTURY

Comprising a section of the corner of the field and narrow guard stripe, this fragment reveals a complex array of colour and bold scale of drawing seen in the sharp saw-toothed palmettes that are characteristic of the group. Woven on a red ground it displays a narrow mid-blue guard stripe with scrolling S-motif. A similar serrated palmette but on a dark brown ground appears on a fragmentary carpet in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Museum, Istanbul, acquired 13 December 1911. inv. no. 739 (54) from the Mosque of Daye Hatun in Bursa, (Yetkin op.cit, pl.18). For a fuller discussion on this group see lot 169 in the present sale.