Konya Rug Fragment Late 18th century Sotheby's Lot 19

Konya Rug Fragment Late 18th century Sotheby's Lot 20

Konya Long Rug Dated 1804 Sotheby's Lot 44

Konya rug with a yastik design mid 19th century Sotheby's Lot 24

Konya Long Rug mid 19th century Sotheby's Lot 12

 Konya Yastik circa 1880 Sotheby's Lot 49

Konya Yatak mid 19th century Sotheby's Lot 38

Konya Rug 2nd half 19th century Sotheby's Lot 106

Konya Bagface circa 1870 Sotheby's Lot 8

• Nagel Yellow Ground Konya Fragment 17th C. Lot 15

• Rippon-Boswell 18th C. Konya Saf Fragment lot 15

• Rippon-Boswell Konya Fragment late 18th c. lot 36

• Sotheby's Central Anatolian Saf Kilim Possibly Konya C. 1800 Lot 99

• Sotheby's Konya Rug Central Anatolia C. 1800 Lot 5

• Rippon-Boswell 18th C. Konya Fragment lot 115

• Rippon-Boswell 18th C. Konya Fragment lot 116

• Nagel A rare Konya village Turkish rug late 18th C. Lot 10

• The Krayer Konya Karacadag Rug

• The Wertime Konya Area Sleeping Rug (yatak)

• Sotheby's Konya Prayer Rug C. 1870 Lot 158

• Nagel Konya Prayer Rug mid 19th C. Lot 13

• Nagel Konya Turkish rug mid 19th C. Lot 11

• Rippon-Boswell 19th C. Konya Turkish Rug Fragment lot 161

• Early 19th century Konya Prayer Rug

• Sotheby's Konya Turkish Rug mid-19th C. lot 15

• A Konya prayer rug, circa 1875,

• A mid-19th C. yellow ground Konya rug, lot 27

• Nagel Konya Village Rug late 19th C. Lot 16 Compare to Bordjalu

• A Konya rug, Central Anatolia, lot 59

• Rippon-Boswell 1st half 19th C. Konya Prayer Rug lot 137

• A 19th C. Konya Prayer Rug,

• The Aaron Nejad Antique Konya Aksaray Prayer Rug

• Christie' s Anatolian Animal Pelt Long Rug Lot 103

Nagel Yellow Ground Konya Fragment 17th C. Lot 15

A Konya prayer rug, circa 1875,

Seljuk Ersari/Azari Turkmen rugs

Konya is the center of Turkey's greatest carpet regions. Examples of Seljuk rugs have been identified from Konya dating to the 13th and 14th centuries. The Seljuk were the Elite clan of the Ersari/Azari Turkmen confederation who fled to Turkey just ahead of the Mongol invasion in the 11th century.

http://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupc/cj/cja/Seljuk.htm

Rippon-Boswell 18th C. Konya Fragment lot 115

• Ancient city in Asia Minor, the modern Konya, Turkey. In ancient times it was known as Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, and the Roman province of Galatia. The apostle Paul visited the city where he converted part of the Greek and Jewish population and established one of the seven important churches. Iconium reached it's peak as a Christian city in the third century.
• It was a weaving center since at least the Seljuk invasion in the eleventh century.
• From 1063 to 1309 it was the capital of the Seljuk Turks.

Nagel Konya Village Rug late 19th C. Lot 16