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"Lotto" rug with a main border of cog-wheel rosette with four small arrows motif, XVII century, Western Turkey, Ushak Region, Ottoman Empire. Mirco Cattai, Italy (http://www.mircocattai.com)

 

120x196cm

Published : Tappeti Antichi edizione Giorgio Mondadori & Associati 1991, pag 57; Sovrani Tappeti Skira' 1999, in occasione di ICOC Milano, pag 28

Edoardo Concaro, Alberto Levi (ed.), Sovrani Tappeti. Il tappeto orientale
dal XV al XIX secolo. Duecento capolavori di arte tessile, Milan, Skira, 1999, p.28.
ANATOLIAN RUGS FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE by Stefano Ionescu