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Para Mamluk carpet with interlaced star-motifs in a four-and-one layout, each surrounded by a radial arrangement of "small motifs", the field enclosed by a Kufiesque border.

C. 1500, 207 x 143 cm. Woollen pile on a wool foundation.

15th or 16th century, published at Walter Denny «Anatolian Carpets». Acquired by  Charles Grant Ellis. Currently Moshe Tabibina Collection, Milan, Italy. Formerly Wher Collection, Switzerland.


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The Protonotary Giovanni Giuliano (Zuan Zulian)
about 1530-40, Italian, North
National Gallery, London