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Western Anatolian carpet, 18th century, Ghiordes (Gördes). Embroidered inscription: M. Hissen 1736. Evangelical Church, Rosenau, Transylvania.
Published in E. Schmutzler, Altorientalische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen, Leipzig, 1933, pl. 33; also in Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, by Kurt Erdmann, no. 216.