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Antique Konya or Kapadokya rug, Central Anatolia, Turkey, 19th century.

Major Spring Auction
Auction date: Saturday 29. May 2010
Rippon Boswell & Co. International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles

Lot: 213
Konya - In this village rug from the Konya region, the design of two large hooked diamonds and surrounding hooked and dotted triangles has been drawn in particularly harmonious proportions and woven in beautiful colours. Previously published by Herrmann; his illustration still shows the carpet with longer kilim ends and an undamaged border.
Origin:Central Anatolia
Size:207 x 138 cm
Age:19th century
Estimate:1.500,00 ˆ