Sotheby's Carpets
New York | 13 Dec 2007, 10:00 AM | N08377
LOT 81
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A KONYA COUPLED-COLUMN PRAYER RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA,
approximately 5ft. 1in. by 4ft. 2in. (1.55 by 1.27m.)
18th century
ESTIMATE 7,000-10,000 USD
Lot Sold: 40,000 USD

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's New York, 22 September 1993, lot 86
CATALOGUE NOTE
A coupled-column prayer rug in the Vakiflar Museum, Istanbul, no. E-17, shares its series of arches and yellow border
of stylized cartouches with the lot offered here, see Balpinar, Belkis and Udo Hirsch, Carpets of the Vakiflar Museum
Istanbul, Wesel, 1988, pl. 70. This cartouche border is a version of that found on earlier 'Transylvanian' rugs such as
lot 14 in this catalogue. In comparison to the Vakiflar rug, the present lot features more decorative motifs and shorter
columns suggesting that it was woven at a later date. The overall design format and proportion of columns found
here is shared with lot 55 in this catalogue. The pile end borders of this rug are an unusual feature amongst similar
rugs, with their highly stylized motifs recalling the lampet ends on smaller yastiks, or cushion covers.