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Antique Ladik prayer rug, Sarayönü, Konya Region, Central Anatolia, Turkey, 18th century.

A CENTRAL ANATOLIAN COUPLED-COLUMN PRAYER RUG
PROBABLY LADIK, 18TH CENTURY

Price Realized £3,600 ($6,732)

Sale Information
SALE 7264 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
9 October 2006
London, King Street

LOT NOTES
Lot Description
A CENTRAL ANATOLIAN COUPLED-COLUMN PRAYER RUG
PROBABLY LADIK, 18TH CENTURY
Areas of wear, corroded black, repairs to centre, outer stripe reduced
6ft.3in. x 4ft.11in. (191cm. x 150cm.)

 

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

Literature
Raymond Bernadout, Turkish Rugs, 1975, London, pl.17.

Lot Notes
A very similar rug to the present lot is in the Metropolitan Museum, although the present rug retains the coupled columns while the Metropolitan example continues the flowering vine of the upper and lower panels as two bands through the field (S.M Dimand and Jean Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1973, no.137, pp.245-6). Two even closer examples are published by Peter Bausback, Antike Orientteppiche, Brauschweig, 1978, nos.68 and 69).