ID 932060
Lot 195 | AN ANATOLIAN 'PHOENIX IN OCTAGON' RUG
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
CENTRAL OR EASTERN ANATOLIA, LATE 15TH / EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Areas of restoration, reduced in size, lined and mounted
6ft.7in. x 3ft.11in. (200cm. x 119cm.)
Provenance
With Otto Bernheimer
From whom purchased by the father of the present owner in 1996
Thence by descent
Literature
Otto Bernheimer, Alte Teppiche des 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert-s, Munich, 1959, pl.13.
HALI, vol.5, no.4, 1983, p.514, exhibition review.
The Textile Gallery, London, The Textile Gallery Brochure 2, (text by Michael Franses and Ian Bennett), The Textile Gallery, London, 1986, no. III, pp. 5-7.
London, Colnaghi Gallery, Turkish Rugs and Old Master Paintings, by J Eskenazi and The Textile Gallery, London, 1996, no.1, pp.4-5.
HALI, Issue 86, May 1996, p.149.
Michael Franses, 'An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples', 2013, p.267, fig.b
Exhibited
Colnaghi Gallery, London, Turkish Rugs and Old Master Paintings, by J Eskenazi and The Textile Gallery, 15 March - 3 April, 1996
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| Medium: | Textile, Wool |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Carpets, Rugs & carpets |
| Medium: | Textile, Wool |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | Carpets, Rugs & carpets |
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