AN
AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, 18TH CENTURY
Price Realized
£2,390 ($4,426)
Sale
Information Christies SALE 9959 — OAK, COUNTRY FURNITURE, FOLK ART,
WORKS OF ART AND SCULPTURE (The sale of The Adam Clayton Collection of
carpets) 10 November 2004 London, South Kensington
LOT 397
AN AKSARAY KILIM CENTRAL ANATOLIA, 18TH CENTURY The ivory field
with two columns of polychrome large hooked panels containing lozenges and
minor motifs flanking a central column of hooked lozenges, decorated skirt
at each end, remains of crenellated border at each side, localised
damages, backed 13ft. x 3ft.4in. (396cm. x 102cm.)
Lot Notes
This is probably the oldest kilim in the collection. Although it probably
originally had a border running along each side, its lack probably
enhances the power of the strongly coloured motifs. A very similar
example, but complete with border, was exhibited in Germany (B.
Frauenknecht: Early Turkish Tapestries, Nürnberg, 1984, pl.49). Half of
another similar kilim is in the McCoy Jones Collection (C. Cootner: The
Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Collection, San Francisco, 1990, pl.39,
p.163).
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