Lot Essay
See the introductory essay for a discussion of the Ushak Medallion group.
Details
AN USHAK MEDALLION CARPET
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The red field with blue tracery palmette vine around a black ogival flaming medallion with floral sprays around a cusped red quatrefoil medallion containing palmette vine, the yellow pendants with palmettes and vine, the spandrels with part cusped black medallions containing similar motifs, in a black palmette and flowering vine border between light blue polycrome S-motif and red panelled stripes, corroded black, worn, in places severely, holed, ragged ends with losses
Approximately 9ft.5in. x 7ft. (286cm. x 213cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, ends reddish, hardly to slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: two shoots, reddish wool, sometimes red, Z1, sometimes one shoot undulating, the other strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, knots symmetrical inclined to the left
Sides: additional green wool shoot, Z2S, bound in flatweave on the left with four and on the right with three warps, between the first and second warp ground-shoot drwan over three shoots
Remarks: lazy lines, supplementary shoots
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The red field with blue tracery palmette vine around a black ogival flaming medallion with floral sprays around a cusped red quatrefoil medallion containing palmette vine, the yellow pendants with palmettes and vine, the spandrels with part cusped black medallions containing similar motifs, in a black palmette and flowering vine border between light blue polycrome S-motif and red panelled stripes, corroded black, worn, in places severely, holed, ragged ends with losses
Approximately 9ft.5in. x 7ft. (286cm. x 213cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, ends reddish, hardly to slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: two shoots, reddish wool, sometimes red, Z1, sometimes one shoot undulating, the other strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, knots symmetrical inclined to the left
Sides: additional green wool shoot, Z2S, bound in flatweave on the left with four and on the right with three warps, between the first and second warp ground-shoot drwan over three shoots
Remarks: lazy lines, supplementary shoots
Provenance
Acquired 9 January 1926 as an "Uschak" for DM800