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This photograph likely depicts the rug in photographs BR58.120 and BR58.116, which identifies it in an inscription as "Rug of Smyrna wool and hemp by Otti Berger. White, black, brilliant blues, red, yellow."
Busch-Reisinger Museum Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Mrs. Walter Gropius
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Title: Rug
Description:
This photograph likely depicts the rug in photographs BR58.
120 and BR58.
116, which identifies it in an inscription as "Rug of Smyrna wool and hemp by Otti Berger.
White, black, brilliant blues, red, yellow.
".

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