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