Lot Essay
See the introductory essay for a discussion of the Ushak Medallion group.
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AN USHAK MEDALLION CARPET
WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY
The blood-red field with blue tracery palmette vine around a large hexagonal medium blue panel containing arabesque vine around a cusped similar red quatrefoil medallion bounded by yellow arabesques and containing palmettes, a similar part panel and medallion at each end separated by small paired blue hexagonal medallions, in a light blue flowering vine border between sea-green hooked vine, blood-red meandering vine and minor stripes, even wear, some repiling, partial loss of outer guard stripe at each end, complete loss of outer stripe one side, replaced flatwoven selvages, small repairs
Approximately 14ft.3in. x 8ft.9in. (434cm. x 266cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, sometimes one strand white and one dark brown, hardly to slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: two shoots, red wool, Z1, one undulating, the other strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclined to the left, H1.8 x V2.8/cm.
Remarks: lazy lines
WEST ANATOLIA, 17TH CENTURY
The blood-red field with blue tracery palmette vine around a large hexagonal medium blue panel containing arabesque vine around a cusped similar red quatrefoil medallion bounded by yellow arabesques and containing palmettes, a similar part panel and medallion at each end separated by small paired blue hexagonal medallions, in a light blue flowering vine border between sea-green hooked vine, blood-red meandering vine and minor stripes, even wear, some repiling, partial loss of outer guard stripe at each end, complete loss of outer stripe one side, replaced flatwoven selvages, small repairs
Approximately 14ft.3in. x 8ft.9in. (434cm. x 266cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, sometimes one strand white and one dark brown, hardly to slightly depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: two shoots, red wool, Z1, one undulating, the other strongly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, symmetrical inclined to the left, H1.8 x V2.8/cm.
Remarks: lazy lines
Provenance
Acquired 17 May 1911 as an "Uschak"