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Pile Carpet

Second half of the 16th century

Wool 331 x 188 cm

The carpet has a yellow pattern on a red ground. It was created in one of the greatest 16th-century centres of carpet-making in Asia Minor, the town of Ushak. The carpet is woven with the Lotto design (named after the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto, who often depicted similar carpets in his paintings).

 

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