[RUG] Very fine and original Panderma (Asia Minor, Turkey) late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Carpet of prayer form. Quality silky wool velvet on a cotton foundation. Density of about 9000 knots per dm2. Remarkable finesse.Field old pink mihrab shaped crown adorned with an oil lamp suspended, and decorated with composition of branches of bulbs, flower buds and stylized foliage in symmetry. Emerald green border with poetic inscriptions. Five borders of which the main one is bronze green with ivory cartridges inlaid with crenellated boxes in the shape of turtle shells. Height : 144 cm - Width : 108 cm PROVENANCE Collection G. then by descent.

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