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Early Central Anatolian Yastik
New
80 x 58 cm (2' 7" x 1' 11")
Turkey, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: good for its age, scattered professional restorations, signs of use on sides and ends
Published: "Weise Collection - Ambassadors from the Orient", Roland Weise, 2019, page 10
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
Back cushions are called "yastik" in Turkey. They exist both as piled wool pieces and as gold-brocaded silk velvet items. Both versions feature "Ladik"-style borders extending beyond the border frame. Some patterns are very similar in both versions, while in others the connection is not so easily discernible.
Our cushion was published in Hali 3/3, page 237, in the review of the Böhmer/Brüggemann exhibition. On page 239, Herwig Bartels suggested that the pattern of the yastik might have been influenced by Anatolian kilims. However, considering the Ottomans' fondness for tulips and carnations, one can naturally imagine that the horizontal flowers represent tulips and the vertical ones carnations.
Brian Morehouse examined the price trends of yastiks in Hali 217, pages 106 - 113, and also presented a piece very similar to ours. He compared the vertical flowers to cut flowers in the borders of 16th- and 17th-century Turkish carpets.
In this context, a fragment of a carpet with this field pattern on a red ground must be mentioned; see Rippon Boswell, May 20, 2000. The ground color of this carpet corresponds to the ground color of the majority of other yastiks with this design. Further white-ground examples can be found in Hali 176, page 108, as well as at Rippon Boswell, November 20, 2004, Lot 128, discussed in Hali 116, page 117. For a comparable velvet yastik with carnations and tulips, see Hülya Bilgi, "Çatma & Kemha," Istanbul 2007, number 42.
Estimate: € 6000 - 8000
Turkey, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: good for its age, scattered professional restorations, signs of use on sides and ends
Published: "Weise Collection - Ambassadors from the Orient", Roland Weise, 2019, page 10
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
Back cushions are called "yastik" in Turkey. They exist both as piled wool pieces and as gold-brocaded silk velvet items. Both versions feature "Ladik"-style borders extending beyond the border frame. Some patterns are very similar in both versions, while in others the connection is not so easily discernible.
Our cushion was published in Hali 3/3, page 237, in the review of the Böhmer/Brüggemann exhibition. On page 239, Herwig Bartels suggested that the pattern of the yastik might have been influenced by Anatolian kilims. However, considering the Ottomans' fondness for tulips and carnations, one can naturally imagine that the horizontal flowers represent tulips and the vertical ones carnations.
Brian Morehouse examined the price trends of yastiks in Hali 217, pages 106 - 113, and also presented a piece very similar to ours. He compared the vertical flowers to cut flowers in the borders of 16th- and 17th-century Turkish carpets.
In this context, a fragment of a carpet with this field pattern on a red ground must be mentioned; see Rippon Boswell, May 20, 2000. The ground color of this carpet corresponds to the ground color of the majority of other yastiks with this design. Further white-ground examples can be found in Hali 176, page 108, as well as at Rippon Boswell, November 20, 2004, Lot 128, discussed in Hali 116, page 117. For a comparable velvet yastik with carnations and tulips, see Hülya Bilgi, "Çatma & Kemha," Istanbul 2007, number 42.
Estimate: € 6000 - 8000