WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A GHIORDES PRAYER RUG
West Anatolia, late 17th or early 18th century
The brick-red field with two palmettes supporting lozenge-filled columns together with a rosette above a descending floral spray below the stepped royal-blue mihrab arch filled with scrolling flowering vine terminating in palmettes, a light eau-de-nil cross-panel above with floral motifs and leaves, in a light tan border of alternating palmettes and rosettes each with paired serrated leaves linked by flowering vine, between light blue meandering hooked flowering vine and minor red zigzag stripes, light wear, a few scattered areas of repiling, replaced selvages, small stain
5ft.1in. x 3ft.9in. (155cm. x 115cm.)

注意事项

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拍品专文

This is an example of a well-known group of prayer rugs which were highly sought after by collectors, particularly earlier in the twentieth century. There is a comparable example in the Ballard Collection (Ballard, James F.: The Ballard Collection of Oriental Rugs, Indianapolis, 1924, no.23. pp.42-4). The border of the present example is more openly drawn, thus being closer in feel than is usual for Ghiordes rugs of this group to the "Transylvanian" prototypes made earlier in the seventeenth century.