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Price Realized £35,850 ($57,324)
Sale Information
Christies SALE 6715 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
1 May 2003
London, King Street
Lot Description
A KARAPINAR
RUNNER
Central Anatolia, 17th Century
The burnt-orange field with
scattered angular flowerheads around a central column of four linked
dark-brown cusped medallions containing angular vine around central
polychrome floral angular flowerheads, small shaded blue spandrels
containing angular vine in each corner, in a dark brown border of trefoil
motifs with a geometric motif inner border and an ivory flowerhead outer
stripe at one end, scattered areas of localised wear, corroded brown,
partial loss to outer border, small stains in central field
12ft.8in. x
3ft.7in. (387cm. x 109cm.)
Lot Notes
Carpets from
Karapinar, which were first discussed as a group by May Beattie, are
typified by their bold use of classical Ottoman motifs, such as the
stylised flowerheads in each medallion as seen in this example,
accompanied by a strong use of colour (Beattie, May: "Some Rugs of the
Konya Region", Oriental Art, Vol.XXIII, No 1, 1976) Since then a number of
examples have come to light and have been dated between the 16th and 19th
centuries.
The closest comparison of all to the present runner is
provided by an example sold recently at Sotheby's, Olympia (16 October
2002, lot 45). The present rug has identical main features, but the
meadllions are more rounded here and do not give the impression of being
squashed within the borders. All the motifs are also drawn in a clearly
more rounded, less angular, way in this example; the trefoil border
demonstrates this very clearly. The present rug also has small flowerheads
scattered within the field which are lacking in the other. A similar small
single medallion rug was exhibited by Franz Sailer (Hali 89, p.149,
exhibition review). That example has almost identical drawing in the
field, but a completely different border design. Other related examples
are listed in the note to the Sotheby lot and in the sale review (Hali
126, p.132).
The present lot does not have the ivory angular floral
meander border which appears on many of the other examples, not does it
have the floral designs filling the field as well as the medallions.
Building up a developmental chronology of the different designs within the
general group is however difficult. While the design of the present
example is for example less complex than that formerly in the Bernheimer
Collection, sold in these Rooms, 17 October 1996, lot 419, the colouring
is very similar indeed, notably with the orange/brown field/design
contrast. The yellow and manganese tones seen here, absent in the
Bernheimer piece, are to be found in the example with Eberhart Herrmann
(Seltene Orientteppiche X, Munich, 1988, no.11, pp.34-5), and the similar
runner in the Textile Museum (McCoy Jones, R. and Yohe, Ralph S.: Turkish
Rugs, Washington D.C., 1968, no.43, dated there to the 19th century).
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