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BIRD USHAK CARPETS (WESTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY)

Bird Ushak carpet. Victoria and Albert Museum, No. 134	The Biertan "Ushak Bird" rug, Ushak-Selendi area, late 16th century, 149x214cm. The Biertan Evangelical fortified church (inv 63)	Bird Ushak rug, Western Turkey. XVI-XVII centuries. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence	Ushak "bird" carpet fragment, XVI century, Ottoman Empire. Konya Mevlana Museum of Ethnography
Bird Ushak carpet fragment, late 16th/early 17th century, 110x136 cm (32x31). Vakiflar Museum (E 114), Istanbul	Ushak 'bird' rug, west Anatolia, 17th century. 134 x 175cm. Black Church, Braşov, no.146	Ushak "bird" carpet border fragment, XVI century, Ottoman Empire. Konya Mevlana Museum
Ushak 'bird' carpet, Western Anatolia, mid-17th century. 115 x 180cm. Black Church, Braşov, no.145	Ushak "bird" carpet, XVI century, Ottoman Empire. Konya Mevlana Museum	Ushak Bird rug, Ushak-Selendi area, 17th century, 120x183cm. St Margaret's Church (inv 503), Mediaş	Ushak Bird rug, XVII century, Austrian Museum of Applied Art (MAK)
Bird Ushak carpet, late 16th century, Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzesi, Istanbul (inv 676)	Ushak 'bird' carpet with cloudband motifs main border, Western Turkey, 17th century. 137 x 168cm. Black Church, Braşov, no.149	Bird Ushak carpet, 17th century, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1955-65-11. The Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection	Bird Ushak carpet, XVII century, Ottoman Turkey, Western Anatolia, Rippon Boswell & Co. International Auctioneers of Rare Carpets & Textiles 29th November 2014
Bird Ushak, Acquired from Franz Bausback, Mannheim, in 1978, 188 x 122 cm, Beginning 17th century	Ushak 'bird' rug, Western Anatolia, 17th century. 138 x 180cm. Black Church, Braşov, no.150	Ushak Bird rug, XVII century, Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest	Ushak Bird rug, dated 1646, 137x204cm. Biserica Mănăstirii (The Monastery Church), Sighișoara (inv 534)
Chatarina Hartman Ushak Bird rug, dated 1664, 134x189cm, Western Turkey. Bruckenthal Museum, Sibiu (Muzeul National Brukenthal, inv. no: 2184), Romania. Formerly in the Evangelical Church, Sibiu	Bird Ushak carpet, 7x12'7"	Bird Ushak carpet, XVII century, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1955-65-12, The Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection	Bird Ushak rug, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 17th century. Turkey. 1943-28-3. The John D. McIlhenny Collection
Ushak 'bird' carpet with rosette and meander border, Western Turkey, mid-17th century. 114 x 171cm. Black Church, Braşov, no.152	Ushak Bird rug, XVII century, Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest	Ushak 'bird' carpet with cloudband motifs main border, Western Turkey, second half 17th century. Blumena (Blumenau Church, Braşov, no.151	Ushak 'bird' carpet with cloudband motifs main border, Western Turkey, second half 17th century
Ushak Bird rug, mid XVII century, Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest	Bird Ushak carpet, 17th century, Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1943-28-2. The John D. McIlhenny Collection	Bird Ushak rug, 17th century. published in Sovereign Carpets: Unknown Masterpieces from European Collections, by E. Concaro and A. Levi	McMullan Ushak 'bird' carpet, Western Turkey, late 16th, early 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ushak Bird rug, XVII century, Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest	Ushak Bird rug, XVII century, Museum of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Múzeum), Budapest	Ushak Bird carpet, Western Turkey, Ushak-Selendi-Manisa Area, XVII century. The Evangelical Church in Rupea (inv 44)	Ushak 'bird' carpet. possibly a Tuduc copy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ushak 'bird' rug. possibly a Tuduc copy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Tile wall decorations of the Rüstem Pasha Mosque (1561-63)

Ayasofya, I Mahmud Library

"Portrait of Ladislaus von Fraunberg, Count of Haag (1505–1566) ", by Hans Mielich, c 1548, Kress Collection, New York

Henry Hastings (1586–1643), 5th Earl of Huntingdon.
by Paulus van Somer I (attributed to). A Bird Ushak rug is depicted in this painting
Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Date painted: 1601

Alexander IV Aegus (the son of Alexander the Great) with his mother Roxana and Eumenes of Cardia, by Alessandro Varotari (Padovanino), 1625. Hermitage, St. Petersburg