Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 591—Seventeenth Century Italian Large j^verlet Rectangular shape. Of white silk, worked [in Hungarian stitchwith a pattern of a lozenge-shaped diaper filled with flowers ofalternating colors. The border is of yellow, patterned with richembroidering of silk and fringed. Length, 11 feet 2 inches; width, 8 feet 10 inches. SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTIRV RIGS. ., 592—Small Asia .Minor Rug 4. /^ ^^j^z t / Of a type found not earlier than 100
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 591—Seventeenth Century Italian Large j^verlet Rectangular shape. Of white silk, worked [in Hungarian stitchwith a pattern of a lozenge-shaped diaper filled with flowers ofalternating colors. The border is of yellow, patterned with richembroidering of silk and fringed. Length, 11 feet 2 inches; width, 8 feet 10 inches. SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTIRV RIGS. ., 592—Small Asia .Minor Rug 4. /^ ^^j^z t / Of a type found not earlier than 1000 ayi/l not later than 1700.(j> > It is both a prayer rug and a hearth rug. The center, with a rich red ground, has a shaped arch above and below, with span-drels occupied by scrolled designs of yellow touched with blue,and in the center a quatrefoiled medallion in dark blue. Themain border, on a dark bine ground, is patterned with large con-ventional palmette figures in red. with touches of green, bine andyellow. The inner and outer guards have conventional straight-stemmed floral spray patterning of blue, yellow and brown on aicd ground. Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, I feet 5 inches.
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