4 x 10 - Red Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug - 52350

52350 Vintage Anatolian Kirsehir Village Prayer Rug with Graveyard Marker Design, Modern Style Wide Hallway Runner 04'00 x 10'03 From
Esmaili Rugs Collection.
This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak
runner features a mihrab, or prayer niche, design with repeated mosque motifs
along the center of an abrashed field. Sometimes called a landscape carpet or
cemetery carpet, the design of mosques or houses with trees was once thought to
illustrate an Islamic cemetery. The central mihrab is outlined with a beige and
coffee colored running water motif. Additional stylized geometric floral
designs flank each upper corner with some small blooms protruding from the border
into the field. A triple border frames the composition. The two matching inner
borders in ocher and maroon feature an interesting tree motif meander, while an
abrashed outer border is composed of lappets that repeat the tree of