Mucur Rugs: Mucur Turkish Prayer Rug Yellow Field Circa 1800

Central Anatolia, approx. 1800.

Size 155 x 120 cm

Description: A very broad pallet with brilliant vegetal colors with a great deal of sun yellow. The rare yellow field Mihrab is occupied by an ascending ornament which is filled with small blooms. Two cartouche Borders, one with colored alternating lozenges, the other one with adjusted Rosette blossoms frame the internal field.

Provenance:

• From a private collection in Baden, Germany - acquired from Bausback, Mannheim

Publication.

• Bausback, F. Anatolische Knupfkunst Aus Vier Jahrhunderten. 1978, P. 74/75.
• Eskenazi (1983), fig. 54.

Estimate 4800. DM

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