Antique Oushak Turkish Rug 44867

Oushak Rug, Turkey, Early 20th Century - This charming Turkish carpet features a prominent ivory medallion decorated with serrated yildiz symbols representing happiness and heaven along with Harshang variants that include angular limbs woven in a combination of apricot pink, pale blue and saffron yellow. Ornate apricot pink spandrels decorated with a mirror-image pattern complement the sparse arabesque and contrast the oxidized olive field. Multiple sets of guardbands and formal borders decorated with flower clusters, reciprocating vinescrolls and ornate palmettes frame the traditionally Turkish field of this antique carpet woven in Oushak during the turn of the 20th century.