Carpet, ca. 1800, Attributed to Turkey, Wool, cotton, and metallic silver thread, 64 3/16 x 163 3/8 in. (163 x 415 cm), Textiles-Woven, Flatwoven floor coverings representing a vibrant village and nomadic tradition were produced in a wide swathe of the Islamic world from Iran, the Caucasus, and Anatolia to Central Asia. This striking kilim reflects the continuation of a mythological and symbolic decorative repertoire that has long associations with Central Anatolia, here creatively reinterpreted in an early nineteenth-century tribal sensibility
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Carpet, ca, 1800, Attributed, Turkey, Wool, cotton, metallic silver thread, 64 3/16 x 163 3/8, 163 415 cm, Textiles-Woven, Flatwoven floor, coverings, representing, vibrant village, nomadic tradition, produced, wide swathe, Islamic world, Iran, Caucasus, Anatolia, Central Asia, striking kilim, reflects, continuation, mythological, symbolic decorative, repertoire, long associations, Anatolia, creatively reinterpreted, early nineteenth-century, tribal, sensibility
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