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Sothebys Carpets
New York|07 Dec 2010, 02:00 PM|N08683
LOT 1
N08683
An Ottoman silk velvet fragment
approximately 3ft. 3in. by 1ft. 2in. (0.99 by 0.36m.)

ESTIMATE 6,000-8,000 USD
Lot Sold: 28,750 USD

CATALOGUE NOTE
For a closely related example in the collection of the Abegg Stiftung, Riggisberg-Bern, Switzerland,
see Julian Raby and Alison Effeny, eds., Ipek, Istanbul and London, 2001, pl. 82, p. 131.