Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World
London | 25 Apr 2012, 10:30 AM | L12220
LOT 690
A `SMALL MEDALLION' OUSHAK RUG, WEST ANATOLIA
Approximately 161 by 112cm.; 5ft. 3in., 3ft. 8in.
17th century
ESTIMATE 40,000-60,000 GBP
CATALOGUE NOTE
The use of facing mihrab arches, relates to a group of double prayer niche `Transylvanian' rugs of the seventeenth
century. For a comparable medallion rug (approx. 157 by 111cm) dated early 17th century, with a field centred with an
archaic medallion against a red ground, the incorporation of a single lantern, spandrels with arabesque scrolls and an
angular scrolling vine border against an indigo ground, see Ference Batári, Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest-
Keszthely, 1994, The Collections of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest I, pg. 55, & pg.133, pl. 43. This collection
from the, includes examples of this type, and those that developed from small medallion Oushak weavings. For
related 17th century small medallion Oushak rugs, with a double niche, see Alberto Boralevi, L'Ushak Castellani –
Stroganoff, Florence, 1987, Pl. 9, pg.30. (approx. 175 by 110cm), Sotheby's, London, 7th October 2009, lot 271 (
approx. 153 by 113cm), and Sotheby's, New York, 24th September 1991, lot 58, 16th century (160 by 114cm), From
the Estate of James A. Lucas.