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Anatolian
Sale Title ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
Location London, King Street Sale Date Apr 10,
2008
Lot Number 0105 Sale Number 7572
Creator CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH
CENTURY
Lot Title A KONYA DISTRICT CARPET FRAGMENT
Estimate 12,000 - 16,000 British pounds
Special Notice No VAT will be charged on the
hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to
the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT
inclusive basis.
Lot Description A KONYA DISTRICT CARPET FRAGMENT
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Nominal light wear, backed
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6ft.2in. x 2ft.6in. (188cm. x 76cm.)
Literature Christopher Alexander, A Foreshadowing
of 21st Century Art, New York and Oxford, 1993,
pp.334-335.
Lot Notes The design of this rug very clearly
relates to that of a group of seventeenth century
Karapinar rugs. The most classic is one in the
Textile Museum (H.McCoy Jones and Ralph Yohe,
Turkish Rugs, Washington D.C., 1968, no.43, among
other publications). This, and others of the
group, have medallions containing radiating
floral sprays among which can be recognised
tulips, while above and below are palmettes (For
a discussion of the group please see May H.
Beattie, "Some Rugs of the Konya
Region", Oriental Art, vol.XXII, no.1,
Spring, 1976, pp.60-76). The present rug has
exactly the elements, combined with a secondary
flower which appears on many rugs and is an
allusion to the hyacinth floret. It also shares
the main border with the Karapinar group. Yet
that is where the similarity stops. The wool is
long and fleecy, much longer and silkier than the
normal Karapinar group. The structure is closer
to some of the "yellow ground Konya"
group with its natural wool warp, no depression,
and generally four shoots of natural brown wefts.
The colours are brilliant, rich and deep,
enjoying sharp juxtapositioning which, coupled
with the very strong drawing, gives a great power
to this carpet. Writing of this carpet Professor
Alexander notes "It is this barbaric
"thing", this actual essence of our
human nature which is reached, plumbed, pierced
when a carpet is made correctly".
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