| 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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