Lot Essay
See the introductory essay for a discussion of the Ushak Medallion group. This example was most likely woven in the first half of the seventeenth century as suggested it's by graceful, curvilinear drawing.
Details
A MEDALLION USHAK CARPET
WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY
The abrashed red field with a ton-sur-ton blue palmette vine around a large central flaming ogival indigo medallion with curving trefoil terminals and palmette vine issuing from a red panelled quatrefoil with similar motifs, quartered palmettes and a floral centrepiece, a small brown arabesque pendant above and below, similar pendants at each end, a part shaded brown and sea-green cusped panel in each spandrel containing a variety of arabesques, in an indigo border of palmettes and rosettes linked by flowering vine between outer red serrated leaf and inner zigzag stripes, some wear, corroded brown, sides and ends bound with very slight loss, small areas of crude old repair and repiling, various patches on reverse
Approximately 13ft.4in. x 7ft.11in. (406cm. x 241cm.)
Warp: white wool, red at the ends, Z2S, slightly undulating, and depressed
Weft: red wool, sometimes brown-red, Z2, undulating
Pile: wool, Z1 the blue Z2, symmetrical inclining to the left, H2.1 x V4.1
Remarks: lazy lines
WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY
The abrashed red field with a ton-sur-ton blue palmette vine around a large central flaming ogival indigo medallion with curving trefoil terminals and palmette vine issuing from a red panelled quatrefoil with similar motifs, quartered palmettes and a floral centrepiece, a small brown arabesque pendant above and below, similar pendants at each end, a part shaded brown and sea-green cusped panel in each spandrel containing a variety of arabesques, in an indigo border of palmettes and rosettes linked by flowering vine between outer red serrated leaf and inner zigzag stripes, some wear, corroded brown, sides and ends bound with very slight loss, small areas of crude old repair and repiling, various patches on reverse
Approximately 13ft.4in. x 7ft.11in. (406cm. x 241cm.)
Warp: white wool, red at the ends, Z2S, slightly undulating, and depressed
Weft: red wool, sometimes brown-red, Z2, undulating
Pile: wool, Z1 the blue Z2, symmetrical inclining to the left, H2.1 x V4.1
Remarks: lazy lines
Provenance
Acquired 25 September 1925 as an "Uschak"