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Lot Nr.: 152
Description: KARAPINAR
Origin: Central Anatolia,
Konya region, ca. 1600
Size: ca. 530 x 142 cm
Estimate EUR: € 90,000
This rural type, formerly unknown in western
collections as it was not exported at the time of
production, has been attributed to Karapinar ever
since May
Beattie discovered some later examples in the
city’s mosque and published her famous
article in Oriental Art. The number of early
examples dated to the 16th/17th centuries is very
small: a fragment in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(two medallions); a fragment in the Vakiflar
Museum, Istanbul (one medallion); a fragment
published by Herrmann (one medallion, now in the
Wher Collection, exhibited at the Institut du
Monde Arabe, Paris, in 1989); a fragment in the
Wolf Collection, New York (published in Atlantic
Collections); and the long, apparently complete
carpet with three medallions in the Washington
Textile Museum (incomprehensibly dated to the
19th century). Stylistically and with regard to
the field and border designs, the last-mentioned
example is closest to our piece, which is also
complete, albeit heavily damaged, and has four
medallions. Woven in glorious colours on a brown
ground (like the Vakiflar fragment), the field
design of our piece is entirely modelled on
Ottoman court patterns, although these were
adapted to a geometric, almost kilim-like style:
tulips, carnations, hyacinths and pomegranates
adorn adriatic blue and salmon-red lattice-like
branches and crosses of flowers. Holes at the
sides, various repiled and repaired areas.
Literature References:
Cf.:
BALPINAR, BELKIS & HIRSCH, UDO, Teppiche des
Vakiflar - Museums Istanbul. Wesel, 1988, pl. 34
+++ HERRMANN,
EBERHART, Seltene Orientteppiche 10. Munich,
1988, no. 11 = INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE
(pub.), Tapis present de L'Orient A L'Occident.
Paris, 1989, pl. p. 121 +++
YOHE, RALPH S. & McCOY JONES, H., Turkish
Rugs. Washington D. C., 1968, no. 43 +++
DODDS, DENNIS & EILAND, MURRAY L., Jr.
(eds.), Oriental Rugs From Atlantic Collections.
Philadelphia, 1996, no. 26
JBOC Comments:
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