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