Christie's (London)
Rugs and Carpets -- Battilossi Tappeti d'Antiquariato
Wednesday, 11 February, 1998
Lot 44
A BERGAMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field with stellar flowerheads around a pistachio-green and raspberry-red
hooked pole-medallion containing hooked small lozenge panels, flanked by part triangular and
indented mottled blue narrow hooked panels containing similar motifs, in a shaded apricot border
of meandering angular leafy vine linking hooked floral motifs and serrated leaves with outer
charcoal-grey angular floral meander and minor barber-pole stripes, corroded black, localised areas
of repiling, outermost extremities restored.
7ft.7in. x 5ft.2in. (23lcm. x 157cm.)
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale, Rippon Boswell & Co.: Fruhjahrsauktion, Wiesbaden, 30 May 1992, lot 112
LITERATURE:
HALI 64, August 1992, p .165
Est.: £5,000-7,000, US$8,300-12,000
Did not sell
