Antique Artisan Re-Worked Turkish Carpet Faded Turquoise

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Antique Artisan Re-Worked Turkish Carpet Faded TurquoiseA striking antique hand knotted rug from Turkey with a traditional design reinvented in a modern style through a process of transformation. The rug has areas of colours removed then re dyed in a monochromatic palette, obtaining an original, unique and exceptional one off appearance. The pile is then shaved, to give a hand carved 3D relief, completely or in part, giving a beautiful aged and worn appearance. In some, the original design or pattern is

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Here a contrapposto stance Bacchus wearing nothing but a crown of ivy

This fantastic piece of furniture would equally be at home in a contemporary

birds and a pagoda within a natural landscape of stylised trees and rock faces

Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet c

all characteristic of the sculptural “plastic” forms associated with late 17th century Savona maiolica production

ingenuity and sexual prowess

but as important display objects for grand Genoese and Ligurian interiors during the high baroque period

and his wife Cassiopeia

Pair of French Tilted planters by renowned Swiss Architect and designer Willy Guhl

They are part of a group known as anatomical votives

supporting a barley-twist centre