拍品 106
106
A BERGAMA RUG

細節
A BERGAMA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1875

The brick-red field with a central latched square deep indigo reserve containing angular stylized floral vine flanked by polychrome latched octagons enclosing stylized palmettes and floral forms and latch hooked brackets all within a brick-red border of indigo angular rosettes interspersed by cream, brick and indigo starflower octagons between multiple stylized floral guard stripes, with plain indigo kilim ends (small repairs)
Approximately 6ft. x 4ft. 11in. (183cm. x 150cm.)

Warp: white wool, Z2S, slightly undulating
Weft: two shoots, red wool, Z1, rarely four shoots, the first (and third) undulating, the second (and fourth) more strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H 2.9 x V4.0/cm.
Sides: dark blue wool flatwoven, Z1, as an additional fastening bound on the left side with eight and on the right with ten warps, ground-shoots bound in flatweave with additional warps of varying number
Lower end: blue wool flatwoven, Z1, approx. 9cm. across
Upper end: flatwoven shoots, blue wool, Z1, approx. 7cm. across, and red wool, Z1, approx. 2cm. across
Remarks: supplementary shoots

拍品專文

The design of this rug has been woven in the Bergama area since the late eighteenth century and can be seen as a late variation on the type IV Holbein pattern as classified by Serare Yetkin (Yetkin, S: Historical Turkish Carpets, Istanbul, 1981, p.66). Here the central octagonal form of earlier examples has become completely square and the flanking octagons further stylized away from the original. Nineteenth century Bergama rugs of this design are often considered to be weavings of the Karakecili.