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Early Ghiordes Prayer Rug
New
161 x 122 cm (5' 3" x 4')
Turkey, ca. 1700
Condition: good for its age, low pile, corroded brown, both ends slightly incomplete, some old repairs
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
A handful of 16th-century rugs featuring columns and niches are known to exist. Perhaps the best known is the Ballard Carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Inv. No. 22.100.51. However, the niches in these carpets are round, and the depiction of the columns in these courtly works is significantly more naturalistic.
Some Turkish rugs preserved in the churches of Transylvania feature three pointed niches and six columns. Like the pieces in Transylvania, our rug displays arabesques in the spandrels and, above them, a panel with tulips and carnations. This rug also features an additional panel with a palmette motif.
In Stefano Ionescu's book "The Transylvanian Heritage," numbers 362 - 365 are comparable. Almost without exception, pieces with three niches there have a cartouche border, whereas ours has a border of palmettes, rosettes, and hyacinths. This border is already visible in the Ballard carpet and also occurs in Transylvania on pieces with only one niche.
Rich, multiple secondary borders are practically never found in Transylvania. Most Ghiordes prayer rugs feature only two columns. Ghiordes rugs have always been highly sought after by collectors. The famous collector James Franklin Ballard owned eleven of these magnificent pieces.
Estimate: € 8000 - 12000
Turkey, ca. 1700
Condition: good for its age, low pile, corroded brown, both ends slightly incomplete, some old repairs
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool
A handful of 16th-century rugs featuring columns and niches are known to exist. Perhaps the best known is the Ballard Carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Inv. No. 22.100.51. However, the niches in these carpets are round, and the depiction of the columns in these courtly works is significantly more naturalistic.
Some Turkish rugs preserved in the churches of Transylvania feature three pointed niches and six columns. Like the pieces in Transylvania, our rug displays arabesques in the spandrels and, above them, a panel with tulips and carnations. This rug also features an additional panel with a palmette motif.
In Stefano Ionescu's book "The Transylvanian Heritage," numbers 362 - 365 are comparable. Almost without exception, pieces with three niches there have a cartouche border, whereas ours has a border of palmettes, rosettes, and hyacinths. This border is already visible in the Ballard carpet and also occurs in Transylvania on pieces with only one niche.
Rich, multiple secondary borders are practically never found in Transylvania. Most Ghiordes prayer rugs feature only two columns. Ghiordes rugs have always been highly sought after by collectors. The famous collector James Franklin Ballard owned eleven of these magnificent pieces.
Estimate: € 8000 - 12000