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Prayer carpet, so-called Transylvanian
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Prayer carpet, so-called Transylvanian

anonymous · 1680 - 1700 · Ghiordesknoop; wool

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Prayer carpet, so-called Seven Provinces. Central field: in a double lacquer-red mihrab with high, irregularly contoured gables, a yellow vase with symmetrical palmette and rosette flowers in yellow/blue/white on transverse stems in brown, with hooked volutes, stands in each top. Just above the middle, two carnations and a pair of angular arabesques. The spandrels are blue, each with a rosette flower in white/red, including a tulip and a lance leaf. Border: triple. The main border is yellow with leaf stems grouped into octagons, diagonally colored in blue/red and blue/ochre, enclosing a rosette with four of them. The inner selvage is black with colored diagonal S-shapes. The outer selvage is red with X's and star rosettes, along which runs an inner border with stretched S-shapes.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineBidkleed, zogenaamde Zevenburgen. 1680 - 1700. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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