CENTRAL ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Details

A 'TRANSYLVANIAN' PRAYER RUG
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Even wear, scattered old repairs, selvages replaced, ends rewoven
5ft.10in. x 4ft. (178cm. 122cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale in these Rooms, 13 April 2000, lot 83, to the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, op.cit., Vienna, 1983, no.9

Exhibited

Antique Oriental Carpets from Austrian Collections, Vienna, 1983.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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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 those in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest (Ferenc Batári: Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest, 1994, no.68; Gyula Végh and Károly Layer: Turkish Rugs in Transylvania, Fishguard, no.23) and in the Black Church, Brasov (Kertesz-Badrus, Andrei: Türkische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen, Bucharest, 1985, no.21).

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