Antique Turkish Oushak Large Carpet
No. 29404
Turkey, Early 20th Century
13 ft. 6 in. x 18 ft. 1 in.
(4.11 x 5.51 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a wool foundation. The very pale blue field is evenly covered with a relaxed arrangement of tilted and upright petal palmettes, cloud bands, and small blossoms, creating a quasi-Persian effect. A pale salmon border features large, softly contoured palmettes alongside smaller palmettes with sharply articulated petals.
