CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A KONYA RUG
CENTRAL ANATOLIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field scattered with minor floral sprays, flowerheads and stylised palmette panels at each end around a stepped pale yellow medallion issuing jewellery motifs enclosing a stylised floral centrepiece issuing angular palmette pendants, the shaded medium blue spandrels with stylised palmette panels and scattered minor motifs, in a pale camel border of polychrome linked cartouche panels containing rosettes between shaded rust-red and brown rosette and barber-pole stripes, selvages replaced, minor reweaves
8ft. x 4ft.10in. (244cm. x 147cm.)

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

This rug is one of a small group of Konya rugs of this design, two of which are in the Markarian Collection and subject to a considerable proportion of the introductory chapter to the catalogue by Walter Denny (Denny, Walter B. and Walker, Daniel (intro. by): The Markarian Album, nos. 6 and 7, pp. 40-46 and 86-89). Another is in the Ballard Collection (Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of James F. Ballard, Indianapolis, 1924, no.44), while another was sold in these Rooms (27 April 1995, lot 438). The present example perfectly illustrates Denny's point when comparing the group to the earlier "Transylvanian" rugs; it is that bit closer to the original than the others. It shares the medallion with the others, but the field is considerably less cluttered, while all the other motifs are that bit closer to the prototype.