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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.
Seen on: www.Sothebys.com
For Further Reading:
Guide To Turkish
Prayer Rugs
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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