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RUGS DESCRIPTION
Rug
Number
Title
Size
Description:
Oushak's are known for their soft palettes combined with eccentric
drawing. Oushak in western Turkey has the longest continuous rug
weaving history, stretching back at least to the mid-fifteenth
century. It has always been oriented commercially, supplying rugs
and carpets, from scatters up to enormous mansion sizes, to both
the Turkish/Ottoman domestic markets and to exports into Britain,
and America. The best-known family portrait of George
Washington has an Oushak beneath the Founder and his family.
Doesn’t get more esteemed than that. Of course, the carpets have
constantly changed as tastes, trends, styles, and markets evolved.
In the late 19th/early 20th centuries, Persian or Persianate patterns
were adopted, and dimensions mutated into Western room sizes.
Colors: blues/ivory/taupe
U-4786
Vintage Turkish
Oushak Rug
4ft 08in X 6ft
07in
1m 42cm X 2m
0cm
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