WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
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A MEDALLION USHAK CARPET
WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The shaded tomato-red field with overall shaded blue silhouetted vine around a flaming ogival indigo medallion with palmette pendants containing various floral motifs around a tomato-red quatrefoil medallion bounded by arabesques radiating from the central light blue floral centrepiece and enclosing palmettes, the spandrels with part-lobed rich green medallions containing quartered palmettes and floral motifs, in an indigo border of palmettes interspersed with flowering vine between light blue angular meander and brick-red geometric motif stripes, even wear, scattered old repairs and repiling, selvages replaced, slight loss at each end
14ft.3in. x 9ft.9in. (434cm. x 296cm.)
WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The shaded tomato-red field with overall shaded blue silhouetted vine around a flaming ogival indigo medallion with palmette pendants containing various floral motifs around a tomato-red quatrefoil medallion bounded by arabesques radiating from the central light blue floral centrepiece and enclosing palmettes, the spandrels with part-lobed rich green medallions containing quartered palmettes and floral motifs, in an indigo border of palmettes interspersed with flowering vine between light blue angular meander and brick-red geometric motif stripes, even wear, scattered old repairs and repiling, selvages replaced, slight loss at each end
14ft.3in. x 9ft.9in. (434cm. x 296cm.)