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"Lotto" carpet, XVII century, Western Turkey, Ushak Region, Ottoman Empire. Iparmuveszeti Muzeum (Museum of Applied Art), Budapest, Inventory number: 14430. Provenance: acquired from Emil Sigerus, Nagyszeb, in 1917



knot density: 1122 knots / dm2

length: 174 cm
width: 119 cm


Szerk.: Udvarhelyi Erzsébet, Nagy Károly: Fejedelemasszonyok és a vallásszabadság Erdélyben Boldog Gizella Főegyházmegyei Gyűjtemény, Veszprém, 2016. - Nr. 78.

Szerk.: Mikó Árpád, Verő Mária: Mátyás király öröksége. Késő reneszánsz művészet Magyarországon (16-17. század). Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, 2008. - Nr. VIII.15. (Pásztor Emese)

Szerk.: Batári Ferenc: Oszmán-török szőnyegek. Az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményei I. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1994. - Nr. 12.

Szerk.: Buzási Enikő: Főúri ősgalériák, családi arcképek a Magyar Történelmi Képcsarnokból. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, 1988. - Nr. D.4. (László Emőke)

Lit: Erzsébet Udvarhelyi, Karoly Nagy: Presiding Ladies and Religious Freedom in Transylvania Boldog Gizella Archbishop's Collection, Veszprém, 2016. - No. 78.

Lit: Árpád Mikó, Mária Verő: King of Matthias. Late Renaissance Art in Hungary (16-17th Century). Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 2008. - No. VIII.15. (Emese Pásztor)

Lit: Batári Ferenc: Ottoman-Turkish carpets. Collections of the Museum of Applied Arts I. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 1994. - Nr. 12

Lit: Enikő Buzási: Famous ancestral galleries, family portraits from the Hungarian Historical Picture Gallery. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 1988 - Nr. D.4. (Emőke László)


 


Structure: Warp: wool, Z2S, ivory, alternate warps (left ones) slightly depressed; Weft: wool, 1Z, brick red (Rubia tinctorum L.), 2 shoots, "lazy lines"; Ends: cut;

Sides: cut and rewoven;

Pile: wool, 2Z,
Colors: nine colours: red (Rubia tinctorum L-), yellow (Reseda luteola L./Salvia triloba L.), blue 3 (indigo), black, black-brown, brick red, ivory;
Knots: ghiordes, horzontal: ca. 33/10 cm, vertical: ca. 34/l0cm, ca.1122 knots/dm2.
Pattern: Field: on a red ground "Lorenzo Lotto" pattern in yellow, according to Ch. G. Ellis in "kilim style"; Border: in the black main stripe cogwheel rosettes with trefoils.
Condition: two streaks, along the middle 22 cm wide, across in the middle 15 cm long rewoven, pattern reconstructed by needlework and left and in the bottom by flat weave; restored by Istvanne Csupak, 1978.
Published: Gombos 1979/bcat. no. 122.: Batari 1981 cat. no. 19.; Batari 1982 cat. no. 7. ill. 7.; Batari 1966/c cat. no. 9. ill. 9.; Batari 1986/f cat. no. 11.; Batari 1990 pp. 257-262.