Turkish Panderma prayer rug, ca. 1850; 4ft. x 6ft. / 140 x 186 cm. Pale-olive, multi-faceted mihrab, with a floral “mosque lamp”, two floral columns, and four flowering shrubs; at the spandrels, a pattern of reciprocally oriented blossoms in red and purple on a soft blue-grey ground. Above and below the field, a row of stylized tulips. Borders: two secondaries with white ground populated with small blossoms; main border with a blood red ground with large flowering plants each with three blooms, outlined in white and pale olive. Some wear evident, commensurate with its age of ~ 170 years.