Title: Niche Rug with Floral Field
Date: late 16th century
Location: Cairo, Egypt (Ottoman court manufactury)
Materials: wool and cotton pile on a wool foundation
Dimensions: 176 x 137cm
Accession Number: TXT 186
Other Notes:
The elegant niche suggests that this was a prayer rug, to be hung on a wall in the direction of Mecca, however, and not spread on the ground. Niches with such elaborate floral decoration appear in Ottoman art soon after 1550, as on tilework in the mosque of Rüstem Pasha (d 1561) in Istanbul.
Bibliography:
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.397, p.335.
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