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Sotheby's Carpets
New York|10 Jun 2009, 10:00 AM|N08563

LOT 47
A Bergama rug, West Anatolia
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approximately 6ft. 1in. by 5ft. (1.85 by 1.52m.)
A Bergama rug, West Anatolia
ESTIMATE 8,000-12,000 USD


CATALOGUE NOTE
A Bergama rug with similar field design containing an octagonal medallion reminiscent of those of
the 'Holbein' type and detached rosettes is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see
Joseph V. McMullan, Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, p. 297.


LITERATURE
Bausback, Peter, Antike Orientteppiche, Braunschweig, 1978, pp. 82-83.