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A 'TRANSYLVANIAN' PRAYER RUG FRAGMENT
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The partial open maize-yellow mihrab beneath a cream arch with carnation blossoms and curling leaves surmounted by a rectangular tomato-red and cream floral-filled cartouche reserve, all within a butter-yellow border of polychrome flowerheads and palmettes with curling leaf supports, multiple geometric floral guard borders, holes, areas of insect damage, wear
Approximately 2ft.11in. x 3ft.11in. (89cm. x 119cm.)
Warp: white wool, yellow at ends, Z2S, depressed, undulating
Weft: two shoots, ivory and red wool, Z, first shoot slightly undulating, the second strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z1-3, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H3.6 x V 3.4/cm.
Sides: yellow wool flatwoven, Z1, bound with five warps as additional fastening, beween the first and second warp ground-shoot drawn over additional shoots.
Remarks: lazy lines, supplementary shoots
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The partial open maize-yellow mihrab beneath a cream arch with carnation blossoms and curling leaves surmounted by a rectangular tomato-red and cream floral-filled cartouche reserve, all within a butter-yellow border of polychrome flowerheads and palmettes with curling leaf supports, multiple geometric floral guard borders, holes, areas of insect damage, wear
Approximately 2ft.11in. x 3ft.11in. (89cm. x 119cm.)
Warp: white wool, yellow at ends, Z2S, depressed, undulating
Weft: two shoots, ivory and red wool, Z, first shoot slightly undulating, the second strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z1-3, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H3.6 x V 3.4/cm.
Sides: yellow wool flatwoven, Z1, bound with five warps as additional fastening, beween the first and second warp ground-shoot drawn over additional shoots.
Remarks: lazy lines, supplementary shoots
Provenance
Acquired prior to 1909 as "Fragment XVI Jahrhundert"