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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Special Gallery: Carpets and Kilims >> Knotted carpets >> from Istanbul Turkish & Islamic Arts Museum > Istanbul Türk ve Islam museum 014
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Istanbul Türk ve Islam museum 014

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Konya, 1700.

Pile knotted carpet, wool on wool.
The figure in white has an edge decorated with the ‘Koçboynuzu’-motif (Ram’s horn); it symbolises male fertility, male power and heroism.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Catalogs of Turkish Handwoven Carpets’– Turkish Ministry of Culture.


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