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A Yellow Field Mucur Prayer Rug Circa 1800 Central
Anatolia, approx. 1800.
Size 155 x 120 cm
Description: A very broad pallet with
brilliant vegetal colors with a great deal of sun
yellow. The rare yellow field Mihrab is occupied
by an ascending ornament which is filled with
small blooms. Two cartouche Borders, one with
colored alternating lozenges, the other one with
adjusted Rosette blossoms frame the internal
field.
Provenance:
- From a private collection in Baden,
Germany - acquired from Bausback,
Mannheim
Publication.
- Bausback, F. Anatolische Knupfkunst Aus
Vier Jahrhunderten. 1978, P. 74/75.
- Eskenazi (1983), fig. 54.
Estimate 4800. DM
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