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Early Karapinar 203 x 144 cm (6’ 8” x 4’ 9”) Turkey, 16th century Condition: consistent with age, low pile, incomplete around the edges, some old restorations and reweavings 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 15 Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool This impressive and rare rug signals its affinity with more urban works, which it reinterprets confidently and powerfully. The red field with blue spandrels is reminiscent of double-niche Ushaks with small medallions, such as plate 83 in McMullan, ”Islamic Carpets”, 1965. However, the medallion is much larger, dominant, and drawn with pendants. A simplified interpretation is shown in McMullan on plate 109. This probably comes from Karapinar and broadens the field of possible comparisons. The medallion of our carpet represents an abstract version of the famous Karapinar-Bernheimer carpet. See Bernheimer, ”Alte Teppiche des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts” (Old Carpets of the 16th to 18th Centuries), Munich 1959, image 18, or Hali 86, page 134, and then, after the removal of the restorations, Hali 166, page 42. The soft style of the design of this carpet is associated with Ottoman kilims. This brings us to plate 33 in ”Belkis Balpinar” / Udo Hirsch, ”Carpets in the Vakıflar Museum,” where not only the medallion but also the border echoes our piece. Another interesting comparison can be found in ”Turkish Carpets from the 13th to 18th Centuries,” Ertug, plate 100. This carpet also features a medallion and pendants, as well as a cartouche border and soft design, but is significantly more densely woven. An Ushak with a large medallion and pendants: Sotheby’s New York, December 14, 2006, lot 161, Hali 151, page 159. The design survived well into the 19th century in a simplified form, Rippon Boswell, November 26, 2011, lot 32, and almost identically in the same house, A 79, lot 32.