A KARAPINAR RUNNER

CENTRAL ANATOLIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A KARAPINAR RUNNER
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with a column of four large light blue hooked medallions each containing a central rosette issuing angular polchrome flowering vine linked by yellow, sea-green and blue floral octagons issuing stylised hooked floral vine to each side, in a shaded apricot border of polychrome rosettes issuing angular floral sprays between light blue and fox-brown angular S-motif stripes, outer mill-pattern stripes, rust skirt at each end containing linked arched lozenge panels, one end re-woven and possibly reduced, areas of localised wear, repair and re-weave, slight loss at each end
11ft.5in. x 4ft.7in. (347cm. x 140cm.)

Lot Essay

This runner is a later version of that offered as lot 419 in the separate catalogue of the first 32 lots of this sale. A similar example to the present runner in the Yukari Mosque, Ladik, is published by May Beattie in her discussion of the group (Beattie, M.: 'Some Rugs of the Konya Region', Oriental Art, vol.XXII, 1976, no.1, fig.18, p.69). She relates it very closely to an example in a private collection in Sweden that is dated 1174 (1761 AD).

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