Property from a Prominent Private Collection
A COUPLED-COLUMN NICHE RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, PROBABLY KONYA
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prominent Private Collection
A COUPLED-COLUM🌸N NICHE RUG, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, PROBABLY ꦦKONYA
18th century
approximately 153 by 117 cm.
Please note: Condition 9 oಞf the Conditions of Business for Buyers for thi🔯s sale is not applicable to this lot.
Acquired June 2, 1949 by the Bernheimer Family
The Bernheimer Family C♈ollection of Carpets, Christie's, London, 14 February 1996, lot 🃏144.
Bernheimer, Otto, Alte Teppiche des 16-18 Jahrhunderts der Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl. 40
Exhibition Review, Hali, Vol. 1, no. 3, 1978, p. 300, fig. 3.
This coupled column prayer rug is an interesting example of the type with unusual border design, the overall stemming from the earlier Ottoman court column rugs. A comparison for the present lot can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1974.149.18 formerly Joseph V. McMullan collection. Both examples share the deep red field with well-articulated narrow ivory columns, though with differing borders. A rug with comparable borders is published in Christopher Alexander’s book, Alexander. C., A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets, New York, 1993, pp. 318 & 319.