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A LARGE USHAK CARPET WEST ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1800 Light touches of localised wear, lightly corroded brown, areas of repiling and restoration, selvages partially rebound on both sides, one end rewoven along outer guard stripe, overall very good condition 23ft.3in. x 18ft.3in. (710cm. x 558 cm.)
This Ushak carpet demonstrates both the continuation of the visual vocabulary from earlier medallion Ushak carpets and its development into the nineteenth century. The layout of the field with its bold central medallion, corner spandrels and smaller cartouches shows little variation from examples from as early as the sixteenth century (see, for example, Boralevi, 1987, p. 18). This style continued with very little change, as shown by an early seventeenth century Ushak carpet in this sale, lot 189.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the drawing of our example is, however, bolder in style than earlier medallion Ushak carpets, due to the coarser weaving technique found in later examples. Here, the ogival central medallion has become more linear, which is characteristic of later medallion carpets. The bold style of drawing is highlighted by an expansive colour palette going beyond the blues, reds and yellows of earlier Ushaks. While the small repeating motifs covering the field find an earlier parallel in an Ushak 'Star' carpet of the sixteenth century in the Wehr Collection (Boralevi, 1987, p. 19), in our example they have been developed into a vibrant flurry of polychrome lozenges. Later examples from the early twentieth century made for export would go on to favour softer, pastel tones in line with the tastes of the American and European markets, see lot 205 in this sale.