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Sotheby's Carpets
New York | 13 Dec 2007, 10:00 AM | N08377
LOT 55
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A KONYA COUPLED-COLUMN PRAYER RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA,
approximately 4ft. 11in. by 3ft. 9in. (1.50 by 1.14m.)
circa 1800
ESTIMATE 7,000-10,000 USD
Lot Sold: 21,250 USD
CATALOGUE NOTE
Similar in its overall design scheme with lot 81 in this catalogue, these
two rugs have entirely different border
systems. The rosette-filled border and dark brown guard borders are more
closely related to the coupled-column
prayer rugs from the early 19th century such as lot 53, Carpets from the
Estate of Vojtech Blau, Sotheby's New York,
December 14, 2006; Herrmann, Eberhart, Rare Oriental Carpets IV, München,
no. 5 and Sotheby's New York, May
18, 1985, lot 39. The coffee pot and carnation shrubs here are features that
become more prominant in the cited
examples. Also in these 19th century rugs the coupled-columns virtually
disappear with very squat ones remaining in
the Blau piece and only the capitals left in the other two examples. The lot
offered here is a piece that marks the
transition from earlier rugs such as lot 81, to those of the 19th century
mentioned above. We are offered a view of the
continuum as well as the change that took place over time in Turkish village
workshops.
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