Description
KAYSERI RUG
Golden beige field
Decorated with garlands of palmette motifs, flower buds surrounded by stylised diamond-shaped leaves, and featuring a central medallion with four cross-shaped circles inlaid with a delicately drawn floral wreath on a salmon-coloured background with motifs echoing the central field.
A pale salmon-pink border decorated with rows of floral bulbs, fine circles and stylised wreaths.
Mercerised cotton velvet and silk on a silk foundation
Anatolia, Turkey
Circa 1960/65
300 x 243 cm
(some wear, natural discolouration and sun-faded areas, small stain)
Bibliography: Roger Bechirian, Joseph Iten-Maritz (The Turkish Carpet), ‘Turkish Carpets in Pure Silk from Hereke and Kayseri’ by Ugur Ayyildiz – Expert: Frank Kassapian
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