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EAST TURKESTAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A KHOTAN CARPET
EAST TURKESTAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The brick-red field scattered with rosettes and other floral motifs together with pomegranate sprays at one point around a column of four royal blue roundels each containing floral motifs around a central red rosette, in an inner blue and red key-pattern and outer light red meandering yellow vine border with outer plain stripes, areas of slight wear
10ft.10in. x 4ft.9in. (330cm. x 145cm.)
EAST TURKESTAN, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The brick-red field scattered with rosettes and other floral motifs together with pomegranate sprays at one point around a column of four royal blue roundels each containing floral motifs around a central red rosette, in an inner blue and red key-pattern and outer light red meandering yellow vine border with outer plain stripes, areas of slight wear
10ft.10in. x 4ft.9in. (330cm. x 145cm.)
Provenance
The C. Meyer-Müller Collection, sold Christie's New York, 22 January 1991, lot 105
Literature
Schürmann, Ulrich: Oriental Carpets, Wiesbaden, 1966, pl.p.73
Schürmann, Ulrich: Central Asian Rugs, Frankfurt, 1969, pl.82, p.158
Schürmann, Ulrich: Central Asian Rugs, Frankfurt, 1969, pl.82, p.158
Special notice
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