Like the joined fragments offered as lot 19 of this collection, the current carpet may have been woven near Smyrna for export to the West, principly to the Dutch market. The design of this carpet is derived from Ottoman Court carpet designs of the hatayi style, here relayed in an endless repeating lattice. Two other carpets with similar field designs, but different borders, can be seen in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris (see Tapis Present de L'Orient A L'Occident, Paris, 1989, pp.104-105) and the collection of Joseph McMullen (see McMullen, J.: Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no. 95). Another carpet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Fletcher collection also shares a somewhat similar field design (see Dimand, M. S. and Mailey, J., Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, fig. 168).