Lot Essay
See the introductory essay for a discussion of the Ushak Medallion group.
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AN USHAK MEDALLION RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with ton-sur-ton blue angular palmette vine around a flaming blue ogival medallion filled with palmette vine, the sea-green pendants with arabesques, the spandrels with green part lobed medallions, in a blue border of angular palmette vine between light blue lozenge and red angular vine stripes, even wear, both ends rewoven, selvages replaced with slight loss to guard stripe, small repairs and repiling, repiling and slight tinting to corroded brown
Aproximately 7ft.9in. x 4ft.9in. (236cm. x 145cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, depressed, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, red wool, Z1, often 3 shoots, the first (and third) slightly undulating, the second slightly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H2.8 x V3.9/cm.
Remarks: lazy lines
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with ton-sur-ton blue angular palmette vine around a flaming blue ogival medallion filled with palmette vine, the sea-green pendants with arabesques, the spandrels with green part lobed medallions, in a blue border of angular palmette vine between light blue lozenge and red angular vine stripes, even wear, both ends rewoven, selvages replaced with slight loss to guard stripe, small repairs and repiling, repiling and slight tinting to corroded brown
Aproximately 7ft.9in. x 4ft.9in. (236cm. x 145cm.)
Warp: white wool, Z2S, depressed, undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, red wool, Z1, often 3 shoots, the first (and third) slightly undulating, the second slightly undulating
Pile: wool, Z2S, knots symmetrical inclined to the left, H2.8 x V3.9/cm.
Remarks: lazy lines
Provenance
Acquired 9 August 1937 as an "Uschak"
Literature
Alte Teppiche des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.20