4 x 6 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 73845

73845 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 03'10 x 06'02.

This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug features a serrated center medallion with large palmette pendants on an abrashed scarlet red field. Gray spandrels are dotted with diamonds, while two mauve panels bookend the central design. Each panel features two mihrabs, or prayer niches, within crab halos. Inside each mihrab is a fertility symbol, which also appears between each mihrab. The fertility pattern combines the symbols of both man and woman into one design, while the eye motif in the center is used to protect the family against evil. Three main borders comprised of eight-pointed stars and diamond motifs and are separated by secondary saw-tooth design guard borders. The star designs represent happiness and fertility.

• Rendered in variegated shades of scarlet red, brick red, plum, mauve, pink, light yellow, tan, sand, ecru, beige, coffee, onyx, mustard, ocher, chartreuse, pistachio, gray, stone gray, greige and burgundy.
• Abrash.
• Hand-knotted wool.
• Made in Turkey.
• Measures: 03'10 X 06'02.
• Date: Mid-20th Century.