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A SILK AND METAL-THREAD KOUM KAPI PRAYER RUG
TURKEY, CIRCA 1910
The blackcurrant red-field with an overall delicate and entwined floral and leafy vine issuing occasional palmettes and cloudbands, an indigo floral cartouche panel above, the mole-grey mihrab arch with a golden-yellow inscription band enclosing two baluster vases issuing floral leafy vine and perching birds, in a sandy-yellow scrolling delicate split palmette, floral and leafy vine border between shaded pink floral meander and steel-grey and shaded blackcurrant-red reciprocal trefoil stripes, considerably dry with splitting
4ft.5in. x 3ft.1in. (135cm. x 94cm.)
TURKEY, CIRCA 1910
The blackcurrant red-field with an overall delicate and entwined floral and leafy vine issuing occasional palmettes and cloudbands, an indigo floral cartouche panel above, the mole-grey mihrab arch with a golden-yellow inscription band enclosing two baluster vases issuing floral leafy vine and perching birds, in a sandy-yellow scrolling delicate split palmette, floral and leafy vine border between shaded pink floral meander and steel-grey and shaded blackcurrant-red reciprocal trefoil stripes, considerably dry with splitting
4ft.5in. x 3ft.1in. (135cm. x 94cm.)