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Wheel Rug

15th - 16th century
Artist/maker unknown, Turkish
This is the finest example in an American collection of the Turkish "wheel rugs," so named in European inventories of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for their wheel-like pattern of octagons filled with interlaced geometric forms. The pattern can also be found in many Spanish rugs and European paintings of the period.

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