WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800

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A DEMIRDJE KULA RUG
WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800
The royal-blue field with a bold floral spray at either end and delicate flowering vine enclosing a fox-brown lozenge medallion filled with similar palmettes and leafy sprays, in a golden yellow angular carnation spray and angular vine border between fox-brown linked leafy vine stripes and chequerboard minor stripes, areas of wear, repair and corrosion
5ft.8in. x 4ft.4in. (173cm. x 132cm.)

Literature

Peter Willborg: Textile Treasures, No.10, pp.40-41, Stockholm 1995.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar example can be seen in the collection of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, (Ferenc Batári: Ottoman Turkish Carpets, The Collections of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Budapest, 1994, No.142, p.198). Both that example and the present lot fall into a distinctive group of Kula rugs often known as "kömürcü" or "carbon" due to their brown ground colour, (Batári: op cit, p.26). However, this example has a wonderfully rich royal blue field which highlights the decorative stylised floral sprays at each end which derive from the Ottoman quatre fleurs style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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