{"id":1140,"date":"2025-03-04T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:19:24","slug":"mid-20th-century-nazca-lines-carpet-by-olga-fisch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiquerugstudio.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/mid-20th-century-nazca-lines-carpet-by-olga-fisch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid 20th Century “Nazca Lines” Carpet by Olga Fisch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stock ID 24599<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecuadorian Carpet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed by Olga Fisch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quito, Ecuador<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12’4″ x 17’3″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle 20th<\/sup> century, c. 1960<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symmetrically knotted wool pile on a wool foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cNazca Lines\u201d are ancient Peruvian, but they have inspired the drawing on this Moderne New World carpet. The vast majority of Ecuadorian carpets display active, schematic human figures and animals, generally in dark tones contrasting with cream, borderless grounds. This is the only known carpet by this designer executed in a totally abstract, minimalist manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three bent, wiry, black lines creating an open \u201cY\u201d shape, with bull\u2019s eye circles and long traces, in coral or goldenrod, on the beige ground. The wiry lines do not touch the sides except in one case. This results in a palpable tension between the thin, dynamic lines and the more accepting, passive larger ground.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n