Christies SALE 1116 — ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS 23 April 2013 London, King Street AN USHAK RUG WEST ANATOLIA, 16TH CENTURY Price Realized £43,750 ($66,719) Estimate £35,000 - £50,000 ($53,200 - $76,000) Lot 48 AN USHAK RUG WEST ANATOLIA, 16TH CENTURY Uneven overall wear, some corroded colours, scattered repairs and repiling, selvages replaced, ends rewoven, backed 8ft.5in. x 4ft.8in. (255cm. x 143cm.) Provenance The Davide Halevim Collection, sold in these Rooms, 14 February 2001, lot 27. Lot Notes Among all the rugs and carpets produced in Ushak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a very small number have overall floral field designs. Of these, the majority repeat a design of one sort or another which is normally found as a border, but is in these cases used to form vertical bands (Joseph V.McMullen, Islamic Carpets, New York, 1965, no.79, pp.254-5, among others). To have the field filled with a genuine overall repeat pattern is very unusual indeed. One example, formerly in a private Berlin collection, the blue field filled with overall stylised palmettes of a somewhat more blousy floral character than the present examples, was published in Kurt Erdmann, Oriental Carpets, London, 1962, pl.146.