"Lotto" rug with ragged palmette and hooked bar motif border, kilim style, mid XVII century, Western Turkey, Ushak Region, Ottoman Empire. St Margaret''s Church, Medias (Mediasch) {Biserica Fortificata Din Medias}, inv. 511


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120x205cm. published in Schmutzler 1933, plate 18 and Stefano Ionescu's "Antique Ottoman rugs in Transylvania", plate 242