Lot 43

A DOUBLE NICHE `TRANSYLVANIAN' RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1650

The shaded brick-red field with a stylised vase at each end issuing widely spaced angular floral motifs, the stepped shaped blue spandrels with rosettes and serrated leaves, in a red border of alternating sandy yellow and ivory gabled cartouches containing turtle palmette motifs and flowering vine between dusty pink and charcoal-bIack rosette and chequered stripes, even wear, scattered repairs, end stripes rewoven, replaced selvages
5ft.x4ft.1in. (152cm.x124cm.)

Est.: £6,000-8,000, US$9,900-13,000

Sold for £9,775

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