WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1890
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A SILK AND METAL THREAD TOUSSOUNIAN HEREKE RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1890
The blackcurrant-red field with delicate flowering trees, cloudbands and scattered with variety animal figures, perching birds, an elephant with howdah and a camel with his keeper, the mihrab arch with ivory, lime-green and shaded indigo stylised calligraphic panels around a stylised turban-motif, in an ivory border of palmettes, elongated winged animals, cloudbands and delicate flowerhead vine, around lime-green calligraphic panels divided by key-pattern roundels, between pistachio-green meandering flowerhead and palmette vine stripes, plain outer burgundy stripe, blackcurrant-red striped kilim at each end, minor repairs
qft.7in. x 4ft.2in. (201cm. x 127cm.)
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1890
The blackcurrant-red field with delicate flowering trees, cloudbands and scattered with variety animal figures, perching birds, an elephant with howdah and a camel with his keeper, the mihrab arch with ivory, lime-green and shaded indigo stylised calligraphic panels around a stylised turban-motif, in an ivory border of palmettes, elongated winged animals, cloudbands and delicate flowerhead vine, around lime-green calligraphic panels divided by key-pattern roundels, between pistachio-green meandering flowerhead and palmette vine stripes, plain outer burgundy stripe, blackcurrant-red striped kilim at each end, minor repairs
qft.7in. x 4ft.2in. (201cm. x 127cm.)