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A CENTRAL ANATOLIAN RUG, late
XVIII century
Price Realized £10,000
($15,250)
Sale Information
Christies
SALE 1116 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
23 April 2013
London, King
Street
Lot Description
A CENTRAL
ANATOLIAN RUG
CIRCA 1800
Overall wear, some reweaves and
touches of repiling, a few cobbled repairs, outer stripe lacking on both
sides, selvages replaced, ends secured and taped
6ft.9in. x 4ft.6in.
(206cm. x 137cm.)
Provenance
Acquired Davide
Halevim, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastrict, 1988
Lot 79
Two earlier fragmentary Anatolian carpets are closely related to
the present example. The first, catalogued as an 'Archaic Arrowhead
Blossom Carpet' is discussed by Christopher Alexander in Foreshadowing of
21st Century Art. The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets,
New York and Oxford, 1993, p.191 and the second is a Turkish pile rug
illustrated by Friedrich Sphuler, Oriental Carpets in the Museum of
Islamic Art, Berlin, Munich, p.203, pl.60. Both examples have closely
related, archaic designs that play with positive and negative space.
This visual play was a device used by draftsmen in the sixteenth
century court nakkashhane or Imperial scriptorium and can clearly be seen
in the designs of Iznik tiles (Alexander, op cit., p.191). This influence
can also be seen in textiles of the same period that play with the
illusion of differing planes of colour through design. A 16th century
short-sleeved kaftan in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, whose design
originates from earlier damasks, has an equally optically challenging
effect, (Nurhan Atasoy et al., Ipek, The Crescent & the Rose, Imperial
Ottoman Silks and Velvets, Istanbul, 2001, p.65, pl.21.)
A very
close comparable to the present lot, but with a different central
medallion, sold in these Rooms, 9 October, 2006, lot 88.
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