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Sale N07820
 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A "TRANSYLVANIAN" PRAYER RUG, WEST ANATOLIA,
New York 15,000—20,000 USD Session 1
01 Oct 02 2:00 PM
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 13,145 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 5ft. 6in. by 4ft. 7in. (1.68 by 1.40m.)

DESCRIPTION
17th century oxidized charcoals, partial upper end guard border, missing lower end guard border, reselvaged, minor repiling and small reweaves,

Provenance Christie's New York, December 17, 1993, lot 18. The elegant format and delicate drawing of this West Anatolian village workshop prayer rug is directly influenced by the magnificent Ottoman carpets produced in the court ateliers of Sulayman the Magnificent in 16th century Turkey. For a 16th century Ottoman Court workshop prayer rug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see: McMullan, Joseph V., Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, pp. 32-3, no. 4. Unlike the majority of contemporaneous "Transylvanian" rugs, the present example retains the glorious architectural cloudband collar rotunda of its antecedents. For related "Transylvanian" prayer rugs sharing this Ottoman-style mihrab, light blue palmette and vine-filled spandrels and palmette and vine-filled borders, see: Batári, Ferenc, Ottoman Turkish Carpets, The Collections of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Budapest, 1994, pp. 73, 187, Inv. No. 7.952, and Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs (Ex. Cat.), St. Louis, 1924, No. 29.

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