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"Lotto" rug (Anatolian style), XVI century, Western Turkey, Ushak Region, Ottoman Empire.


Christie's, London
Oriental Rugs and Carpets
Tuesday 2 October 2012

154
A FRAGMENTARY ‘LOTTO’ RUG
PROBABLY USHAK, WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Uneven overall wear, scattered repairs and associated repiling, sides
and end border rewoven


7ft.2in. x 6ft.6in. (218cm. x 197cm.)
£7,000-10,000 US$11,000-15,000
€7,900-11,000

 

PRICE REALIZED
£37,250 ($60,122)


The field design of this carpet is closely related to a ‘Lotto’ carpet in the
Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection in the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, 55-65-9, (Charles Grant Ellis, Oriental Carpets in the Philadephia
Museum of Art, London, 1988, fig 6, pp.22-24).