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NO. 12768

Turkey

2'3" X 3'3" (0.69 m x 0.99 m)

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Antique Geometric Beige Brown Blue and Red Wool Kilim Rug 12768

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1910-1919, this rare 2x3 antique Turkish rug is a true masterpiece of geometric design. It highlights a striking fragment pattern crafted in a rich palette of browns, navy blues, and red. A profoundly historic, tribal work. On the Design: Connoisseurs will immediately find this piece deeply admirable, instantly recognizing it as a masterwork of staggering rarity and profound historic importance. Crafted entirely in premium wool, this antique Turkish rug represents an era of early 20th-century craftsmanship that commands absolute authority in any space. The composition is a breathtaking triumph of geometric artistry, presenting a highly stylized fragment design of repeating diamond motifs that has been gracefully transformed by time. The colorway is a masterclass in rustic elegance. Keen eyes will marvel at the remarkably intricate interplay of jagged, serrated tribal patterns and delicate inner geometric medallions emerging from the robust, time-softened field. Every single element; from the exquisitely detailed borders to the deep navy, rich red, and warm brown hues; is executed with a precision that is the hallmark of only the most collectible historic works. Crafted with absolute devotion, the piece possesses a remarkable tactile depth that brings its sophisticated colorway to life. The design is so inherently beautiful, so flawlessly realized in its vision, that it speaks entirely for itself; a complete, unassailable masterpiece that leaves absolutely nothing to be added. Brimming with a quiet, undeniable majesty, this phenomenally rare antique provides a monumental foundational anchor for the most discerning collections. Condition: This antique Turkish rug is in good condition for its age and origin.

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Measurements: 2'3" x 3'3" ( 0.69 m x 0.99 m )
Categories: Accessories, Antique
Classification: Fragment, Geometric, Kilim/Flat Weave, Tribal
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 12768

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There is a persistent misconception about tapestry, and it is worth correcting at the outset: that the weaving is the whole of the art. It is not. Behind every great European tapestry stands an artist, the author of the design from which the weavers worked, and the history of the medium is in large part the history of these figures. To collect tapestry seriously, or simply to understand it well, is to know their names. What follows is a guide to the artists who matter most, arranged as the tradition itself unfolded, from the royal workshops of the old regime to the modern revival that made tapestry, once again, one of the most ambitious art forms in the world.

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September 25, 2026

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.

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September 3, 2026

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

Antique 17th Century French Beauvais Tapestry with Floral Vase - Rug & Kilim, NO. 36829 We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light caught the threads. This was the Antique French Beauvais Tapestry (SKU 36829). It was handwoven in wool, with natural silk accents, circa 1700. When you look at something like that, you do not just see fabric. What you see is the garden of wool and dreams. The precise interlacing of the wefts gives a picture of a gigantic floral vase placed atop an architectural entablature. The botanical imagery is absolutely mesmerizing. There is so much wealth and mystery to it all.

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April 29, 2026

How the World’s Most Serious Art Spaces Are Rewriting the Rules of the Floor and the Contemporary Home

There is a room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset; the gallery that occupies a converted farmhouse in the English countryside, where Pipilotti Rist installations have shared walls with Phyllida Barlow sculptures and where the building itself feels like an argument against the idea that serious art requires a white cube to be taken seriously, where a single large antique textile lies on the stone floor beneath work of radical contemporary ambition. It does not announce itself. It simply holds the room together with the authority of an object that has been doing exactly this, in exactly this way, for several centuries longer than the art above it has existed. The artists whose work hangs on those walls have spent their careers thinking about surface, material, and the relationship between an object and the space it occupies. The carpet understood all of this before any of them picked up a brush.

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April 28, 2026

How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes

There is a room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where a sixteenth-century Persian carpet stops people mid-stride. Because something in the object itself; its scale, its silence, the particular authority of a thing that has already outlasted three empires makes the ordinary pace of a museum visit feel suddenly inappropriate. The Emperor's Carpet, as it is known, was commissioned in Safavid Iran, passed to Peter the Great of Russia, gifted to the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I in 1698, held by the Austrian Imperial House until 1921, acquired by the Met in 1941, and displayed publicly only twice in the following sixty years because its condition was too fragile to risk. It has survived more political systems than any collector alive today will ever witness. It knows something about geopolitics that no sanctions framework, no bilateral negotiation, no executive order has yet managed to articulate.

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April 10, 2026

Luxury Coastal Rugs: Styling High-End Interiors from the Hamptons to the French Riviera

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Accessories

NO. 12768

Turkey

2'3" X 3'3" (0.69 m x 0.99 m)

Out of Stock

Antique Geometric Beige Brown Blue and Red Wool Kilim Rug 12768

"Rug & Kilim is one of our favorite sources when looking for quality handmade rugs. Their team go above and beyond to find &/or make the rugs that fit our clients needs as well as their dreams."

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Specifications:

Measurements: 2'3" x 3'3" ( 0.69 m x 0.99 m )
Categories: Accessories, Antique
Classification: Fragment, Geometric, Kilim/Flat Weave, Tribal
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 12768

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Stories from the Accessories Collection

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

How the World’s Most Serious Art Spaces Are Rewriting the Rules of the Floor and the Contemporary Home

How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes

Luxury Coastal Rugs: Styling High-End Interiors from the Hamptons to the French Riviera

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