Karapinar Rugs the OConnell Notes

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Proto-Tulip Group

• Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque in Divrigi I include this in the lineage of the Tulip Group even though I think it is 2nd quarter 16th century Egyptian since these are Kilims are often cited as the groups progenitor.

• Turkish Rugs: The Casper Foy Karapinar Long Rug Wendel Swan pointed out to me quite rightly that this rug is stylistically closer to the Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque than to the Tulip group. I suspect that this carpet is a workshop Turkish piece inspired by the Court Kilim group that I believe was made in a Mamluk workshop shortly after the Ottoman victory over the Mamluk in 1517.

• Karapinar Tulip Rug from the Philadelphia Museum of Art This rug shares a stylized Iris Flower motif similar to the ones seen in the Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque.

• Karapinar Yellow Ground Tulip Rug from Berdj Achdjian this rug has a 4 petal motif where two of the petals are longer than the other two. It shares this motif with the Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque and to a lesser extent with Turkish Rugs: ”Cantoni” Karapinar Rug 17th C. Rippon-Boswell lot 71 .

Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Carpet Fragment 17th Century Rippon Boswell Lot 82

Tulip Group
The estimates of age of this group tend to be all over the place. Take the Textile Museum Carpet for example, if it went up at auction today we might well see the date range be estimated to range somewhere between circa 1600 and 17th century. the Textile Museum estimates the age in the 19th century. I think the Textile Museum estimate is way out of line but as I looked at it I think I understand there rational. Dr. Mae Beattie wrote that the Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque in Divrigi was 17th century. Then Charles Grant Ellis used that work to date the Karapinar Tulip Rug from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the 18th/19th century. Based on that the Textile Museum carpet gets labeled 19th century. I think Beattie missed the call on the Court Kilim by at least 100 years and everything cascaded from there. I think the Court Kilim is late 1st quarter 16th century. That the Foy Casper Karapinar Long Rug is circa 1550. The PMA Karapinar Tulip Rug is tougher to date since it has particularly close comparables so let me date it to second half 16th century. That puts the Tulip group in line as circa 1600 and onward.

• Karapinar Carpet Fragment Late 16th C lot 66

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug from the Vakiflar Museum Circa 1600 - 1700 I estimate this at circa 1600

• Karapinar Red Ground Tulip Rug from the Textile Museum this rug is incongruously dated to the 19th century. this looks close to 1600 than to the 19th century.

• Karapinar Iris and Tulip Carpet from Erdmann's 700 Years

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug C. 1600 Rippon Boswell Lot 152

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Carpet Fragment 17th Century Rippon Boswell Lot 82 /

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug Fragment from the Wolf Collection First half 17th century.

• Tulip Karapinar Long Rug 18th century Sotheby's Lot 23 This rug shares a stylized Iris Flower motif similar to the ones seen in the Court Kilim from the Ulu Mosque and the Karapinar Tulip Rug from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I think Sotheby's got it right as 18th century.

• Karapinar Tulip Rug from Ed Krayer

• Karapinar tulip Rug circa 1900

• Karapinar Red Ground Rug Alexander Collection Not sure where to put this rug. Hali described it as a Karapinar and it has Tulips but I am not convinced it is closely atuned with the rest of the Tulip group.

Medallion Group

• Karapinar Medallion Rug Alexander Collection

• Turkish Rugs: ”Cantoni” Karapinar Rug 17th C. Rippon-Boswell lot 71

  • Karapinar Medallion Rug 17th century

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Carpet 17th Century

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug 18th C.

Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug 18th C.

Arrow Spandrel group

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• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Carpet 16th C. from Alberto Levi This rug shares a use of the Cintamani motif with the Karapinar Tulip Rug from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Long Rug 18th C.

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Rug Single medallion composition from Ed Krayer

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Carpet Runner Late 19th Century

• Karapinar Medallion Rug circa 1900

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Rug with plain rose field

Miscellaneous

• Turkish Rugs: The Krayer Konya Karapinar Turkish Rug

• Turkish Rugs: Three Mihrab Karapinar Prayer Rug from Ed Krayer

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Yatak Rug from Ed Krayer

• Turkish Rugs: Konya Karapinar Long Rug 1st half 19th C. Nagel Lot 14

• Karapinar Multi Niche Prayer Rug 17th century

• Turkish Rugs: Karapinar Kilim Circa 1800

• Turkish_Rugs_Karapinar_Kelim_17th18th_Century

Possibly related

• Karapinar Curling Leaves Rug 18th century

• Konya Area Rug Fragment circa 1600

Needs Pictures

• Karapinar Multi Niche Prayer Rug 17th century

Here we have a Poppy Iris Roundel bracketed top and bottom with Iris blossums on stems. the Iris flower grows wild throughout the land occupied by the Mamluk Empire. See: stylized Iris Flower motif