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A SILK AND METAL-THREAD HEREKE RUG
TURKEY, CIRCA 1890
The shaded blackcurrant-red field with a central stylised stream in the foreground surrounded by a variety of delicate flowering trees and plants, scattered with a multitude of animal combat groups, frogs, peacocks, and perching birds, in a shaded indigo border of delicate floral vine and cloudbands around floral cartouches alternating with blackcurrant-red stylised bird roundels, between burgundy red and sandy yellow angular scrolling floral vine and minor similar stripes, slightly dry and a few negligible splits
9ft. x 5ft.11in. (274cm. x 180cm.)
TURKEY, CIRCA 1890
The shaded blackcurrant-red field with a central stylised stream in the foreground surrounded by a variety of delicate flowering trees and plants, scattered with a multitude of animal combat groups, frogs, peacocks, and perching birds, in a shaded indigo border of delicate floral vine and cloudbands around floral cartouches alternating with blackcurrant-red stylised bird roundels, between burgundy red and sandy yellow angular scrolling floral vine and minor similar stripes, slightly dry and a few negligible splits
9ft. x 5ft.11in. (274cm. x 180cm.)