A FINE KOUM KAPI PRAYER RUG, the steel-grey field with flowering and palmette vine around bold scrolling arabesques worked in metal-thread and flatweave, a small inscription panel above, the angled and cusped royal-blue mihrab arch with scrolling arabesques, in a rich burgundy border of similar arabesques interlaced with tendrils issuing palmettes and flowering vine between ivory and metal-thread meandering palmette and arabesque vine stripes (very slight damage to selvedges)

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A FINE KOUM KAPI PRAYER RUG, the steel-grey field with flowering and palmette vine around bold scrolling arabesques worked in metal-thread and flatweave, a small inscription panel above, the angled and cusped royal-blue mihrab arch with scrolling arabesques, in a rich burgundy border of similar arabesques interlaced with tendrils issuing palmettes and flowering vine between ivory and metal-thread meandering palmette and arabesque vine stripes (very slight damage to selvedges)
5ft.4in. x 3ft.8in. (163cm. x 109cm.)

Lot Essay

Unlike the more frequently encountered Koum Kapi prayer rugs of 'Sultan's head' design, each rug of this design appears to have been woven with a different combination of colours. For other examples sold in these rooms, see 14 April 1976 lot 21, 26 November 1987 lot 21, and 14 June 1990 lot 38. See also footnote to lot 27.

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