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AN AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY Price Realized £1,016 Set ($1,881) Sale Information Christies SALE 9959 — OAK, COUNTRY FURNITURE, FOLK ART, WORKS OF ART AND SCULPTURE 10 November 2004 London, South Kensington Lot Description 394-AN AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY The field with eight tan, chestnut and ochre bands each containing a large serrated panel in similar colouring containing linked serrated hexagons, all divided by minor ivory bands of serrated leaves, a few scattered repairs 8ft.11in. x 3ft.9in. (302cm. x 114cm.) Lot Notes Three other kilims with very comparable designs have been published (Yanni Petsopoulos and Belkis Balpinar: 100 Kilims, exhibition catalogue, London, 1991, no.63; J.Mellaart, U. Hirsch and B. Balpinar: The Goddess from Anatolia, Milan, 1989, vol.I, p.81, fig.3; B. Frauenknecht: Early Turkish Tapestries, Nürnberg, 1984, pl.39. While the third of these was woven in two panels, the present example is also more similar to the first two in its minimal use of blue tones.
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