A PART COTTON EAST ANATOLIAN RUG

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PART COTTON EAST ANATOLIAN RUG
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The sandy yellow field with rosettes and angular vine around two columns of confronted angular stylised palmettes, a band of triangles along each side issuing occasional hyacinth florets, in a cinammon-brown border of leafy motifs divided by hooked vine between barber-pole stripes, areas of damage and repair
6ft.9in. x 4ft.4in. (206cm. x 132cm.)

Lot Essay

This unusual rug relates to a carpet fragment from the Bernheimer Collection sold in these Rooms 14 February 1996, lot 37. The Bernheimer fragment depicts in its border a more refined version of the present design, but also includes there the hyacinth florets which flank both sides of the present rug. The clearest similarity is in the large hooked palmettes radiating inwards from the border. A contemporary Caucasian rug which is related in design, demonstrating the link across the border, is illustrated by Yetkin (S.: Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, London, 1978, vol.1, pl.97).

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