A BERGAMA RUG

WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800

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A BERGAMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800
Of archaic design, the shaded brick-red field scattered with a variety of flowerheads and floral octagons around a central concentric shaded sea-green and golden yellow lozenge panel containing similar motifs and issuing stylised tulips, flanked by four triangular inset spandrels formed of polychrome hooked diagonal stripes, set within a sea-green band forming a re-entrant arch with rosette at each end, in an ivory border of X-motifs formed of polychrome jagged S-motifs between brick-red linked hooked panel and mill-pattern stripes, a short kilim strip at each end, very slight overall wear, small old repairs
8ft.5in. x 5ft.4in. (256cm. x 163cm.)

Lot Essay

For related rugs with this design deriving from a sixteenth century prototype see HALI vol.V, no.2, 1982, p.168 (Halevim); Rippon Boswell & Co., 15 May 1993, lot 91; and Bausback, P.: Alte und Antike Knpfkunst, Mannheim, 1979, p.12. For a discussion of the earlier prototypes see Mills, J.: 'Carpets in Paintings', HALI 58, August 1991, pp.86-103.

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