Lot Essay
The maker's name appears to be Awzang(?)
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1940
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A SILK AND METAL THREAD HEREKE PRAYER RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1940
The brick-red field with large cloudband motifs overlaying delicate tendrils issuing arabesques and flowering vine, an upper mirrored inscription panel on metal-thread ground, the cusped ivory mihrab arch with arabesques and floral tendrils, in an ivory border of interlaced arabesques enclosing palmettes, three large upper brick-red cartouches containing naskh inscriptions between ice-blue flowering vine and cloudband stripes, plain outer stripe, signature cartouche at one end, plain kilim strip at each end
5ft.4in. x 3ft.3in. (163cm. x 99cm.)
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1940
The brick-red field with large cloudband motifs overlaying delicate tendrils issuing arabesques and flowering vine, an upper mirrored inscription panel on metal-thread ground, the cusped ivory mihrab arch with arabesques and floral tendrils, in an ivory border of interlaced arabesques enclosing palmettes, three large upper brick-red cartouches containing naskh inscriptions between ice-blue flowering vine and cloudband stripes, plain outer stripe, signature cartouche at one end, plain kilim strip at each end
5ft.4in. x 3ft.3in. (163cm. x 99cm.)