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拍品专文
By the middle of the seventeenth century Smyrna (Izmir), the Western Anatolian port on the Agean Sea, had become one of the most important trading centres in Asia Minor (Ydema, Onno: Carpets and their Datings in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700, Zutphen, 1991, p.51). The so-called Smyrna carpets were produced for the export market under the direct supervision of the Dutch (Werner Grote-Hasenbalg quoted in Boralevi, Alberto: Oriental Geometries, Livorno, 1999, p.86). Smyrna carpets have been depicted in 17th Century Dutch Paintings and all the 18th Century examples depict the carpet having a green or yellow field colour (Ydema,Onno:op.cit,p.53).
The rug offered here is a beautiful example of its type with well proportioned palmettes, rosettes and lanceolate leaves in a continuous polychrome rosette border. A similar rug of almost identical proportions which has the same border is the Ballard Collection (Ballard,James F. Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of James F. Ballard, Indiana, 1924, p.162, No.87). The Ballard rug has an addition not seen in ours, of two bold rosettes between lanceolate leaves in the upper portion. Another very similar example with the same rosette border and comparable in size but with a field having two columns of palmettes is in the Amir Pakzad Carpet Museum in Hanover (von Gladiss, Almut, Islamische Teppiche und Textilien, Hanover, 1987, pl.59, p.69). Another fragmentary example, is in the Bardini Collection (Boralevi, Alberto, Geometrie d'Oriente Stefano Bardini e il Tappeto Antico, Florence, 1999, p.89, pl.28). The border is different having floral cartouches but the field and stripes are identical in design and the size is similar.
These carpets, having taken their design inspiration from Ottoman designs, were transported from Smyrna to Europe. The designs were based on frequently encountered motifs with decorative palettes. Many later examples exist today from the 19th and 20th centuries, notably the so-called Turkey carpets found in large country houses.
The rug offered here is a beautiful example of its type with well proportioned palmettes, rosettes and lanceolate leaves in a continuous polychrome rosette border. A similar rug of almost identical proportions which has the same border is the Ballard Collection (Ballard,James F. Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of James F. Ballard, Indiana, 1924, p.162, No.87). The Ballard rug has an addition not seen in ours, of two bold rosettes between lanceolate leaves in the upper portion. Another very similar example with the same rosette border and comparable in size but with a field having two columns of palmettes is in the Amir Pakzad Carpet Museum in Hanover (von Gladiss, Almut, Islamische Teppiche und Textilien, Hanover, 1987, pl.59, p.69). Another fragmentary example, is in the Bardini Collection (Boralevi, Alberto, Geometrie d'Oriente Stefano Bardini e il Tappeto Antico, Florence, 1999, p.89, pl.28). The border is different having floral cartouches but the field and stripes are identical in design and the size is similar.
These carpets, having taken their design inspiration from Ottoman designs, were transported from Smyrna to Europe. The designs were based on frequently encountered motifs with decorative palettes. Many later examples exist today from the 19th and 20th centuries, notably the so-called Turkey carpets found in large country houses.