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Early West Anatolian ”Double-Keyhole” Rug 188 x 155 cm (6’ 2” x 5’ 1”) Turkey, 17th century Condition: good for its age, low pile, incomplete around the edges, some small restorations Provenance: Roland Weise Collection Published: ”Weise Collection - Ambassadors from the Orient”, 2019, p. 16, and ”From Anatolia to India, ICOC Catalog”, Helmut Eberhart, 2014, plate 8 Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool Only four other examples of this remarkable carpet are known to exist. The first publication of one such example can be found in Hali 5/2 on page 168. The famous dealer Davide Halevim exhibited it at the Venice Biennale in 1982. Seventeen years later, this piece was shown by David Sorgato at ICOC IX in Milan, Hali 105, page 157. A second example is published in the ICOC VIII catalog, ”Oriental Rugs from Atlantic Collections”, on plate 58. There, among other theories, a connection with the ”Re-Entry” carpets is already pointed out. A third carpet then appeared at Sotheby’s in London, Hali 93, page 125, which sold for £14,950. These three pieces differ only in minor details from the present example. A final example, which had a stiffer design and in which the octagonal shapes disappeared, was auctioned at Rippon Boswell in 2006 for €18,000. See catalog 67, no. 25, and Hali 148, page 111. Re-entrant carpets, also known as keyhole or Bellini carpets, which are related to our small group, feature the eponymous octagonal keyhole shapes at one or both ends. As early as 1493, Cima da Conegliano painted such a carpet in his painting ”Madonna and Child”, which can still be found today in the cathedral of his hometown. Francesco da Ponte (1475 - 1539) also depicts such a piece in a painting from 1519. For comparable carpets, see McMullan, ”Islamic Carpets”, 1965, plates 100 and 101, and Ertug, ”Turkish Carpets from the 13th - 18th Centuries,” 1996, plate 131 ff. A detailed treatise on Bellini carpets by John Mills can be found in Hali 58 on pages 86 ff. The carpets of the 15th and 16th centuries often feature the ”ragged leaf and palmette” border, whereas the cross-shaped border seems to be unique to our small group and otherwise appears in the Ghirlandaio carpets.