A CAIRENE RUG FRAGMENT

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A CAIRENE RUG FRAGMENT
OTTOMAN EGYPT, 16TH CENTURY

The burgundy field with palmette and flowering vine issuing scrolling serrated saz leaves, part of a central green roundel with palmettes, the spandrel with a similar blue part-roundel, in a bottle-green border of scrolling vine issuing palmettes and serrated leaves between golden yellow polychrome flowerhead and minor stripes, even wear, slightly tattered sides, repaired splits
Approximately 3ft. x 2ft.2in. (92cm. x 66cm.)

Warp: green wool, S4Z, clearly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, ochre-coloured wool, S3Z; shoots 1 and 3 slightly undulating, shoot 2 strongly undulating
Pile: wool, S2Z, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.4 x V4/cm.

Provenance

Werner Grote-Hasenbalg, Berlin
Acquired from above 20 December 1955 as an "Isphahan Fragment" for DM800

Lot Essay

For a brief discussion of the Ottoman Cairene group, please see lot 83 of this catalogue. The similarity in design, drawing and coloration between this fragment and lot 83 may indicate that they were woven in the same workshop.

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