A BERGAMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Price Realized £22,500 ($36,225)

Sale Information
Christies Sale 7960
Oriental Rugs and Carpets Including Turkmen Weavings From The Collection of Erik Risman
5 April 2011
London, King Street

A BERGAMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Some areas of uneven wear and repiling, some repairs, sides and one end rebuilt, one end secured
7ft. x 5ft.6in. (213cm. x 168cm.)

Provenance
Consul Otto Bernheimer, acquired 9 August 1938 as a "Bergamo". The Bernheimer Family Collection of Carpets, Christie's, 14 February 1996, lot 131
Anon. sale in these Rooms, 15 April 2002, lot 70, to the present owner.

Literature
Werner Grote-Hasenbalg: Der Orientteppich, Seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, vol.1, p.88, fig.49
Otto Bernheimer: Alte Teppiche des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.22
Robert Pinner and Michael Franses: "Caucasian Shield Carpets", Hali, vol.1, no.1, 1978, p.17, no.71
Exhibition Review, Hali, vol.5, no.4, 1983, p.513, fig.1

Exhibited
Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.30, p.39