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"The major Autumn Sale of 18th November
2000 Among the group of Anatolian carpets, the
highest price was achieved by a 17th century
Transylvanian rug, still in good condition and
with an arch design (lot 113)." Rippon
Boswell Wiesbaden Hammer price of $59090
US
This piece is similar to a Transylvanian
Carpet in the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, in
Transylvania published as ill. 6 in
Kertesz-Badus, Andrei. Transylvanian Carpets in
Pinner, R. & Denny, W. D. Oriental Carpet and
Textile Studies III, PART I. 1987, page 37. The
similarity is primarily in the border while the
field is somewhat different particularly in the
supplementary reserve between the mihrab and the
upper border. It share a similarity in both the
borders and the supplementary reserve with The James A. Lucas
"Transylvanian" prayer rug,
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