CENTRAL ANATOLIA, DATED AH 1263/1846-7 AD

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A MUDJUR CARPET
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, DATED AH 1263/1846-7 AD
The shaded brick-red field with angular floral sprays and geometric motifs around a column of three linked hooked panels containing angular leafy vine enclosing a rosette centrepiece, in a brown border of turtle-palmettes and linked geometric motifs between pale yellow angular leafy vine and ivory ribbon stripes, brick-red floral spray skirt at each end, areas of wear
14ft.5in. x 7ft.9in. (439cm. x 236cm.)

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Lot Essay

It is most unusual to find this design, normally a favourite of the Konya district (for example see one in the Alexander Collection sold in these Rooms 15 October 1998, lot 209; or in the Kirchheim Collection: Orient Stars, Stuttgart and London, 1993, nos.170 and 179, pp.246-7 and 258), rendered in the colours and drawing of the present Mudjur.

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