A TRANSYLVANIAN PRAYER RUG

CENTRAL ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Details

A TRANSYLVANIAN PRAYER RUG
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The mottled brick-red field with twin columns supporting a triple ivory arch with pendant floral sprays containing flowerheads and bold interlocking curved leaves, the buff border with dense triangular motifs around elongated hexagonal polychrome panels containing radiating floral sprays between golden yellow and charcoal-grey angular meander and minor barber-pole stripes, ends rewoven, even wear, scattered old repairs
5ft.10in. x 4ft.(178cm. x 122cm.)

Literature

Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian Collections, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, 1983, no.9.

Exhibited

Vienna, 1983.

Lot Essay

This rug is of a well-known type which is one of the few that can be identified with some confidence in texts of the period. The dowry for Klára Tasi when she married Peter Szentiváni in 1650 included "two small red column Turkish rugs for table covers" There are a number of comparable examples including ones in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (Batári, Ferenc: Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest, 1994.no.68; Végh, Gyula and Layer, Károly: Turkish Rugs in Transylvania, Fishguard, no.23) and in the Black Church, Braov (Kertesz-Badrus, Andrei: Trkische Teppiche in Siebenbrgen, Bucharest, 1985, no.21).

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