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AN ERZERUM PRAYER KILIM
TURKEY, CIRCA 1850
The sea-green field with hooked polychrome chevron stripes enclosing small serrated part palmettes, the ivory hooked mihrab arch above containing hanging angular vine issuing stylised floral panels surrounded by smaller lozenges and an illegible inscription, in a brick-red polychrome hooked panelled border between indigo and fox-brown hooked lozenge stripes, areas of wear and old repair
6ft. x 4ft.3in. (183cm. x 130cm.)
TURKEY, CIRCA 1850
The sea-green field with hooked polychrome chevron stripes enclosing small serrated part palmettes, the ivory hooked mihrab arch above containing hanging angular vine issuing stylised floral panels surrounded by smaller lozenges and an illegible inscription, in a brick-red polychrome hooked panelled border between indigo and fox-brown hooked lozenge stripes, areas of wear and old repair
6ft. x 4ft.3in. (183cm. x 130cm.)