A Demerçi Kula carpet, Central Anatolia

The Estate of James  A. Lucas, Sotheby's New York, December 14 2001, lot 83

For related carpets see: Sotheby's London, 14 October 1981, lot 108, illustrated Hali, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 198; one from the Eskenazi Collection, Milan, see: Eskenazi, John J., L'Arte Del Tappeto Orientale, Milan, 1983, pl. 36; one in the Museum of Islamic Arts, Berlin, see: Spuhler, Friedrich, Oriental Carpets, Berlin, 1997, pl. 58; and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the Ballard Collection, Inv. No. 22.11.82, see: Dimand, M. S. and Mailey, Jean, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, No. 145