A TRANSYLVANIAN RUG

WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A TRANSYLVANIAN RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The shaded brick red field with two counterposed flower-vases issuing a variety of angular tendrils, palmettes and flowerheads, the cusped or hooked indigo spandrels with rosettes and stylised leaves, in a golden yellow border of alternating pink and ivory cartouches containing turtle-palmettes and flowering vine between charcoal-grey meandering leaf and reciprocal rams' horn stripes, minor mill-pattern stripes, areas of wear and scattered slight repiling
5ft.3in. x 4ft. 1in. (160cm. x 124cm.)

Literature

Antike Anatolische Teppiche aud Österreichischem Besitz, Vienna, 1983, no.12,

Exhibited

Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, 1983

Lot Essay

This is a classic rug of the original type given the name "Transylvanian". There are many comparable examples, for example two in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts (Batári, Ferenc: Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest, 1994, nos.53 and 54).

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