Collection Prof. Günther Marschall, Hamburg 

Aus🌺tria Auction Company, Vienna, 16 September 2014, lot 158

Schürmann, U., Teppiche aus dem Orient, Wiesbaden, 1976, Cover image and illustrated on p. 91

Whilst the great majority of 'Lotto' rugs were produced with a yellow lattice upon a red ground, a small number in other colourways exist, for example the rug sold at Christie's London 14 February 2001 from Davide Halevim, with a light blue green lattice on a red field, and the fragment illustrated in Hali, Issue 105, July-August 1999, p. 156, The Carpet Studio, Florence, with a dark green lattice on red field. The weaver of this delightful small rug from the Bergama region has reversed this colour arrangement for their interpretation of the 'Lotto' design with a cogwheel and flower rosette border. Ulrich Schürmann obviously found it very appealing, using it on the cover of his Teppiche aus dem Orient.