$2,583
East Anatolian Rug, mid-19th century, the red, blue, and ivory pendanted center medallion flanked at top and bottom by four similar but smaller gold medallions, enclosed by four ivory squares containing eight-pointed stars, and other smaller geometric motifs all upon a deep brown field, all within a wide ivory main border with contiguous diamond and rectangle pattern in shades of blue and red, 7 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 11 in. Literature: Featured in Hali Magazine Issue 52, vol.12, no. 4, August 1990, p. 177; For a similar example see Von Konya Bis Kokand, Rare Oriental Carpets , Eberhart Herrmann, vol. 3, plate no. 15, p. 50.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-03-22