A KONYA RUG

CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A KONYA RUG
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The shaded camel field with bold tulips flanked by stellar flowerheads issuing from the joints between three hooked shaded rust-brown octagonal medallions linked by flowerhead panels, each containing a central rosette panel issuing stylised tulip, hyacinth and carnation motifs, in a charcoal-grey border of polychrome rosettes between rust-brown S-motif stripes, slight wear, corroded brown, scattered small repairs, outer guard stripe and part of main border restored
8ft.9in. x 4ft.4in. (266cm. x 132cm.)
Warp: wool, ivory, Z2S
Weft: wool, grey, Z1; 2 shoots
Pile: wool, Z2S; symmetric, H26 x V28
Sides and Ends: plaiting over three and four alternating warps;

Lot Essay

The drawing and colouring of this rug is very close to that of a longer rug in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, dated to the eighteenth century, (Jenkins, Marilyn: Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p.148), while an almost identical example to that is in the Kirchheim Collection dated to circa 1800 (Kirchheim, E. Heinrich et al.: Orient Stars, a Carpet Collection, London, 1993, pp.246-7). Another example in the Orient Stars Collection, dated to the 18th century, although with noticeably brighter colours, has a border which is almost identical to that of the present rug. For two slightly later and shorter examples see lots 254 and 255 in the main body of this sale.

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