Antique Turkish Sivas Rug Size: 12'8" × 15'8" Date: 1900s Material: Wool on Cotton Sivas is a city in central Anatolia with a workshop weaving tradition that drew heavily on Persian design while producing rugs with a distinctly Turkish sensibility — slightly softer in palette, more open in field treatment, and woven with fine Anatolian wool that gives the pile a characteristic lustrous quality. At this scale, a Sivas carpet was made for a significant interior. The warm ivory field is anchored by a large lobed medallion in madder red at the centre, filled with curvilinear floral scrollwork and surrounded by matching corner spandrels in sage green that pull the eye toward the edges of the composition. The field between medallion and corners is covered with a continuous all-over floral lattice — blossoming flower heads, curving vine work, and botanical sprays in dusty rose, sky blue, gold, and soft green spreading evenly across the ivory ground. The drawing is fine and naturalistic, closer to Persian workshop output than to Anatolian village tradition, reflecting the aspirations of the Sivas workshops toward the formal rug market. The border system is fully resolved — a wide madder main border with large floral cartouches and continuous vine work, framed by navy and ivory guard borders. The green spandrels and the madder border together create a strong colour frame around the soft, luminous ivory field. A well-preserved large-format carpet with a palette that sits comfortably in a range of traditional and transitional interiors.