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Lot: 167
Aksaray, a town on the western edge of the ancient cultural landscape of
Cappadocia, carpets have been woven since the Seljuk period. This important
example shows a four-and-one composition on a red ground, with a large blue
octogram at the centre and a corner design of green figures. Some of these
ornaments may be interpreted as abstract animal figures, which could only be
depicted in hidden form when the ban on images was increasingly enforced.
The design concept of a central design and four accompanying motifs is
encountered in many of the oldest Central Anatolian rugs, and probably dates
back to a pre-Ottoman tradition. Reduced ends, incomplete sides, several
holes.
Origin: Central Anatolia
Dimensions: 200 x 139 cm
Age: 17th century
Estimate: 24,000 ˆ
Literature: ÖLĮER, NAZAN & DENNY, WALTER, Anatolian Carpets. Masterpieces
From The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts Istanbul. Bern 1999, Vol. II,
pl. 18
Major Autumn Auction
Auction date: Saturday 04. December 2010
Rippon Boswell
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