LOT 8 PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR A WEST ANATOLIAN RUG FRAGMENT
approximately 5ft. 6in. by 4ft. 6in. (1.68 by 1.37m.) mounted circa
1800 ESTIMATE 5,000 - 7,000 USD
Sotheby's Carpets, Wed, 16 Dec 09, 10:00 AM, Lot 8
CATALOGUE NOTE The highly stylized and eccentric drawing of stars and
other design motifs in this rug show that it is the work of a village
weaver. In color palette and elements such as the ivory inner and
star-filled octagon borders this rug recalls 4-1-4 design Bergama rugs,
for examples, see Sotheby's New York, 30 May 1986, lot 72 and 22
September 1993, lot 98. The overall design scheme, however, appears to
be a very personal and individual composition, with very distant echoes of
early Anatolian rugs such as those with the Holbein design, see
Şerare Yetkin, Historical Turkish Carpets, Istanbul, 1981, pl. 39.
Carpets New York, Wed, 16 Dec 09, 10:00 AM, N08597 |