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A KOUM KAPI SILK AND METAL-THREAD PRAYER RUG
ISTANBUL, CIRCA 1920
The buff field with two flowerhead cartouche columns issuing from zigzag and metal-thread column bases on a floral lattice panel, enclosing diagonal rows of flowerheads, flanked by two part columns on a field of scrolling palmette, flowerhead and leafy vine panels, the columns terminating in floral cartouches supporting the three arches above depicting on either side three arched doors and in the centre a stylised plan of the mosque and Ka'ba at Mecca, a panel of similar polychrome smaller arches above, inner overlapping trefoil stripe, in an interlocking floral panelled border between polychrome zigzag and light blue linked lozenge stripes, ivory interlaced burgundy, indigo and buff arabesque, narrow zigzag and plain buff outer stripes, excellent condition
6ft.7in. x 4ft.2in. (201cm. x 127cm.)
