Kum Kapi rug
REF.: CGTH15
Kum Kapi rug
| Price range: | More than €25.000,00 |
| Description: | Kum Kapi rug |
| Dimensions: | L166xB103 |
| Origin: | Turkey |
| Period: | 1880-1940 |
| Medium: | pile: silk / warp and weft: silk |
| Technique: | Hand knotted |
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Hagop Kapoudjian (1870-1946) and Zareh Penyamin (1890-1949) were renowned master weavers of the Kum Kapi workshops. They signed most of their pieces.
Kumkapi ('sand gate') is along the shores of the Marmara Sea. Many Armenians were living at the end of the 19th century in this borough of Istanbul.
See the publication:
Hagop Kapoudjian : the first and greatest master of the Kum Kapi school : from examples in the George Farrow Collection of silk rugs and carpets, auteurs: George F Farrow; Hagop Kapoudjian; Leonard Harrow, Editor: Scorpion Pub.,London 1993.
