A USHAK 'MEDALLION' CARPET WESTERN ANATOLIA CIRCA 1600 Approximately 563cm x 381cm This grand Ottoman carpet comes from a well documented group that were woven in western Anatolia, probably on looms in the city of Uşak, from the 15th century until the late 17th century. Usually with a red ground, and the large circular medallion or medallions indigo, the Kime example here has the inverse colour arrangement. The group all have one or more large circular medallions interspersed by smaller, lobed medallions, set against a ground decorated with delicate floral tracery. The earliest and finest examples of these carpets were probably woven for the Ottoman court, but it is clear that they were also exported to Europe from the 16th century, as they appear in paintings by artists such as Vermeer, Velasquez and Zurburan. There are also a number of surviving examples in European collections. For a related example, sharing the inverse colour scheme of the present lot, and sharing its double medallion design and overall proportions, see the Lefèvre large Medallion Ushak, now in the al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait, (Friedrich Sphuler, Carpets from Islamic Lands, London, 2012, pp.51-55). For closely related examples at auction, see Christie's, London, 19 April 2016, lot 151 and Sotheby's London, 6 October 2010, lot 408.
A USHAK 'MEDALLION' CARPET WESTERN ANATOLIA CIRCA 1600 Approximately 563cm x 381cm This grand Ottoman carpet comes from a well documented group that were woven in western Anatolia, probably on looms in the city of Uşak, from the 15th century until the late 17th century. Usually with a red ground, and the large circular medallion or medallions indigo, the Kime example here has the inverse colour arrangement. The group all have one or more large circular medallions interspersed by smaller, lobed medallions, set against a ground decorated with delicate floral tracery. The earliest and finest examples of these carpets were probably woven for the Ottoman court, but it is clear that they were also exported to Europe from the 16th century, as they appear in paintings by artists such as Vermeer, Velasquez and Zurburan. There are also a number of surviving examples in European collections. For a related example, sharing the inverse colour scheme of the present lot, and sharing its double medallion design and overall proportions, see the Lefèvre large Medallion Ushak, now in the al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait, (Friedrich Sphuler, Carpets from Islamic Lands, London, 2012, pp.51-55). For closely related examples at auction, see Christie's, London, 19 April 2016, lot 151 and Sotheby's London, 6 October 2010, lot 408.
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