Carpet with Quatrefoil Design
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This small carpet shows a large quatrefoil design in dark blue on a red ground that stretches across the entire width of the center field, while partial cartouche-like medallions fill the upper and lower-end edges of it. Various highly stylized floral motifs decorate the larger blue motifs and the red ground. The strong geometric rendering of the flowers makes their identification difficult. However, the comparison with earlier Ushak carpets with quatrefoil designs (see for example 1972.80.4), allows the viewer to distinguish lotus flowers, fleur-de-lis and split-palmettes. The small size, the irregularity and the simplification of design of this rug confirm that it was made in a village, where women are known rather than men to have established small workshops.
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