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Lot Essay
The cloudband border design in this rug can be seen in paintings as early as 1611; the majority being illustrated during the period 1660-70 (O.Ydema, Carpets and their Datings in Netherlandish Painting 1540-1700, Zutphen, 1991, pp.36, diag.8.) These indicate that this rug could date from as early as the first quarter of the 17th century.
The rugs, when illustrated in paintings from the period, were generally depicted as table coverings, although, in some depictions, they are used on the floor. An unusual feature in this example is that each cloudband motif faces towards the field design. This would indicate that it was made to cover a surface with the border design which could be viewed from any side. A very similar example is housed in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, inv.no. 7.969, however the endless repeat design is not as centralised as our example (M. Franses, In Praise of God, Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750, Sabanci University, Istanbul, 2007, pl.7, p.138). A number of comparable examples are preserved in Hungary and Romania (Gyula Vegh and Karoli Layer, Turkish Rugs in Transylvania, London, 1977 reprint, pl.5; Ferenc Batari, Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest, 1994, no.13, p.108). This latter example is particularly close to the present rug with its large scale cloudband motifs pointing away from the centre of the rug. Further comparable examples sold in these Rooms, in The Aita Collection, 18 October, 2001, lot 228, and 27 April, 2017, lot 186.
The rugs, when illustrated in paintings from the period, were generally depicted as table coverings, although, in some depictions, they are used on the floor. An unusual feature in this example is that each cloudband motif faces towards the field design. This would indicate that it was made to cover a surface with the border design which could be viewed from any side. A very similar example is housed in the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, inv.no. 7.969, however the endless repeat design is not as centralised as our example (M. Franses, In Praise of God, Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750, Sabanci University, Istanbul, 2007, pl.7, p.138). A number of comparable examples are preserved in Hungary and Romania (Gyula Vegh and Karoli Layer, Turkish Rugs in Transylvania, London, 1977 reprint, pl.5; Ferenc Batari, Ottoman Turkish Carpets, Budapest, 1994, no.13, p.108). This latter example is particularly close to the present rug with its large scale cloudband motifs pointing away from the centre of the rug. Further comparable examples sold in these Rooms, in The Aita Collection, 18 October, 2001, lot 228, and 27 April, 2017, lot 186.