Lot 240
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A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT
A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT
A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT
A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT
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A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT

WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY

Details
A SMALL MEDALLION USHAK VARIANT FRAGMENT
WEST ANATOLIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Even overall wear, corroded black, backed
4ft.8in. x 4ft.4in. (147cm. x 135cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's London, 21 April 1999, lot 73, where purchased by the present owner
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Lot Essay

This carpet, which is complete is its width but incomplete in its length, shows a very interesting and lesser known variant of the medallion Ushak canon. The classic red ground is filled with an endless repeat of minor indigo lozenge medallions, surrounded by delicate light blue tracery vine in a narrow blue floral menader border. Such medallions were usually used as secondary motifs between the larger Star-shaped medallions although here their outlines have softened and they have lost their crisp, cusped outlines and pointed tips. Another rare variant of the 'Star' Ushak design using similar minor medallions is in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, Boughton House, Northamptonshire, inv.no. 60-494.

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