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Prayer carpet, so-called TRANSYLVANIAN
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Prayer carpet, so-called TRANSYLVANIAN

anonymous · 1650 - 1670 · 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: stone-red double mihrab with a white rosette flower in rhombus shape on an ochre-yellow middle rhombus and a concentric red rhombus. On cornflower blue spandrels, each with one white rosette flower and red saw-tooth leaves. Border: triple. The main border is stone-red with equal linked cartouches in white and soft yellow, whose filling is an H-motif derived from a pair of arabesques, respectively in purple-brown and stone-red. The inner selvage of reciprocal V-leaves in red and purple-brown; the outer selvage is purple-brown with a leaf vine. Both selvages are framed by a plain border.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineBidkleed, z.g. ZEVENBURGEN. 1650 - 1670. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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