WEST ANATOLIA, 16TH CENTURY

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AN USHAK RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, 16TH CENTURY
The tomato-red field with overall stylised polychrome palmettes linked by angular vine in a shaded medium blue border of angular hooked vine meander between golden yellow and red floral meander stripes, backed with linen, areas of repiling
8ft.5in. x 4ft.8in. (255cm. x 143cm.)

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Lot Essay

Among all the rugs and carpets produced at Ushak in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a very small number have overall floral field designs. Of these, the majority repeat a design of one sort or another which is normally found as a border, but is in these cases used to form vertical bands (McMullen, Joseph V.: Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no.79, pp.254-5, among others). To have the field filled with a genuine overall repeat pattern is very unusual indeed. One example, formerly in a private Berlin Collection, the blue field filled with overall stylised palmettes of a somewhat more blousy floral character than the present examples, was published by Erdmann (Kurt: Oriental Carpets, London, 1962, pl.146).

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