Carpet Fragment
This irregular-shaped fragment is decorated with rows of hook motifs and stylized leaves in dark blue, green, and yellow on a red ground. This design once was repeated on a larger surface to fill the main field of an Anatolian carpet. The geometric aspect of the composition relates this fragment to the earlier period (13th–14th centuries; Seljuq and Beyliq periods) of which only few examples survive. The interlocking hocked motifs, however, – probably stylized vine scrolls – connect it with later carpets (for example, the famous Lotto carpets from the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries), that were woven in western Anatolia under the Ottomans.
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