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Ararat Rugs Mamluk Carpet with Central Star 16th Century Revival, Natural Dyed
$22,500
£17,000.01
€19,491.27
CA$31,401.34
A$34,167.04
CHF 18,091.03
MX$411,052.86
NOK 229,715.73
SEK 210,173.81
DKK 145,626.93
About the Item
The source of the rug comes from the book Völker, Angela, Die orientalischen Knüpfteppiche das MAK, Vienna: Böhlau, 2001: 42–5. This rug with the central star was designed in the early 16th-century rug by Mamluk Sultane of Cairo, Egypt. It is exhibited at MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria. As its impressive size, materials, and design quality suggest, the carpet is a product of an accomplished court workshop and likely dates from the late period of the last Mamluk dynasty. The quantity of the colors used speaks for an earlier date around 1500; the delicate vegetal border with leaf tendrils and the characteristic umbrella leaves rather point to a later date. In 1517, the Ottomans conquered the Mamluk Empire, but Cairo’s carpet workshops still produced pieces until the mid-16th century in a post-Mamluk style.
Attempting to read early carpets produced in workshops in Cairo provides an entirely different set of challenges. Cairene carpets, distinguished by their limited color palette, symmetrical knotting, and unusual construction of S-spun wool (Z-spun wool being the norm almost everywhere in the Islamic world), underwent a sudden change in design sometime after the Ottoman Turks conquered the Mamluk empire in 1517. The Simonetti Carpet was probably woven after the conquest but exhibits the “old” fifteenth-century style of the Mamluks. Long and narrow, it was woven on a standard-sized Egyptian roller-beam loom, capable of producing carpets of varying lengths. It consists of five major focal areas of design in an A-B-C-B-A pattern, meaning the first and fifth and the second and fourth areas are paired, while the middle is unique. We can easily term these five focal areas medallions, but they are geometric in both layout and detail, and their style (as opposed to the actual date of the weaving) predates the carpet design revolution that gave rise to the medallion format. We can surmise that the designs and colors of Mamluk carpets, with their unusual combination of insect-derived red, blue, green, and sometimes yellow, with virtually no undyed white at all, constitute an effort to create a recognizable brand in the early modern market, especially in Europe, where Mamluk carpets such as this, with their subtle coloration, incredibly detailed design, and mosaic-like layout of small and intricately patterned geometric motifs, constituted an appealing alternative to the more coarsely woven and brightly colored carpets from Anatolia, such as Ushak medallion carpets. While the weaving of carpets in the traditional geometric Mamluk designs apparently continued well into the seventeenth century, sometime around the mid-sixteenth century, Cairene weavers began to create an entirely new kind of carpet, using their traditional Mamluk materials, technique, and coloration but reflecting the latest styles then being created at the court of the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul. The design of the rug is interpreted by our designers, and the most appropriate colors to match the original is used for this rug.
Color summary: 4 colors in total;
Blue Mix (Mixture of Our Blue Variations)
Bistre Brown 411 (Pomegranate – Madder Root)
Jericho Jade 25 (Spurge – Indigo)
Moss Green 27 (Spurge – Indigo)
Group: Islamic Rugs Family
Area: Mamluk
Material of Pile: Natural Dyed Hand-spun Wool
Material Warp / Weft: Wool on Wool
Structure: Symmetrical knot on depressed warp inclining to the right
Knots Density: 39x39
Production Place: Southeastern Anatolia – Diyarbakir
Stock Location: Tokyo
Size (EU): 248 X 302cm
Size (US): 8.1" X 9.10"
Area (EU): 7.5m²
Area (US): 80.6ft².
- Creator:Ararat Rugs (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Width: 97.64 in (248 cm)Length: 118.9 in (302 cm)
- Style:Revival (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
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- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:2020
- Production Type:New Custom(One of a Kind)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Tokyo, JP
- Reference Number:Seller: 400371stDibs: LU8206232758402
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