Antique Ushak Medallion Carpet 16th Century from the Ulu Mosque Divrigi

Antique Ushak Medallion Carpet 16th Century from the Ulu Mosque Divrigi
I am content for the process of discovery to stretch out for years but every now and then I trip over something important. One idea that I had been roughing out over the years was the relationship between Ushak Medallion Carpet and the Persianate floral form field decorations. I was standing in front of a Ushak Medallion Carpet at Jim Dixon's when I finnally put it together. We can come up with a very accurate realative dating system. Put simply the key is the minor field floral forms. The closer they are to the flowers of persian art in the 1540s the older they are. To me it indicates that these are copied from Persian Art. Walter Denny suggests that there is a transitory tile phase where carpets are always copied from tile nd never from paper