A WEST ANATOLIAN RUG PROBABLY BERGAMA DISTRICT, CIRCA 1800
Price
Realized £7,170 ($11,114)
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000 ($9,300 - $12,400)
Sale Information SALE 6630 — Christies ORIENTAL RUGS & CARPETS 17
October 2002 London, King Street
LOT NOTES Lot Description A WEST ANATOLIAN RUG Probably Bergama
district, circa 1800 The dusty red field with an overall ak su design
of polychrome staggered hooked small panels, in an ivory border of
meandering hooked polychrome vine between lemon-yellow zigzag and minor
panelled chequered stripes, a few areas of wear, a couple of old repairs,
selvages mostly rebound, crease line removed at one end, original kilim
ends turned under 12ft.9in. x 5ft.8in. (390cm. x 173cm.)
Lot
Notes The field design of this long carpet is the aq su or "white
water" design found on a number of Turkman smaller weavings but not
normally associated with Turkey. The common ancestry has rarely had such
an obvious artistic demonstration! A related carpet, dating from the
seventeenth century or earlier, where the design motifs are further
removed from the Turkman, arranged in strict columns and rows, is in
Istanbul (Balpinar, Belkis and Hirsch, Udo: Carpets, Vakiflar Museum,
Istanbul, Wesel, 1988, no.65, p.134, pl.pp.306-7). |