Historically the second group of carpets that is most important after the Selçuk carpets are those known as the animal-figured Anatolian carpets. We assume that some figured carpets must have been produced by the Selçuks of Anatolia since in so many ways their palaces display in artistic expression a rich variety of figured representations. İt […]
Author: Old Turkish Carpets
In 1935-36 about one hundred fragments some Selçuk in origin were discovered at Fostat and taken to Sweden by C. J. Lamm. Many of these are still to be found in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; one is in Gothenburg and others are in Lamm’s private collection. A large number have also been acquired by other museums: […]
Twenty-five years after Martin discovered the Konya carpets, more Selçuk carpets were found in the same way in the Eşrefoğlu Mosque in Beyşehir, a district capital lying on the shores of the Beyşehir Lake. They were discovered by R. Riefstahl and brought to the Mevlana Museum, Konya. Three of these carpets, which all bear the […]
A high point in the art of carpet making was to be achieved during the three centuries of the Selçuk Period but unfortunately there are no examples from the period called the Great Selçuk Period. We do however have surviving carpets and fragments from the Anatolian Selçuk Period. These have been designated the “Konya Carpets” […]
This type constitutes a variation of the large-pattern Type III Holbein carpets with a pattern of large squares, octagons or stars with octagon fillings in the center, and with two small octagons above and below these. This is the first “grouping” to be seen in the art of the Turkish carpet, and thus constitutes a […]
These carpets display a simple pattern consisting of large squares with octagon fillings arranged in superimposed rows over the whole field. There may be two or four squares throughout the length of the carpet. This type of carpet, which develops throughout the 15th century, derives from the animal-figured carpets of Anatolia and the carpets with […]
Kurt Erdmann was the first to undertake the work of evaluation of the carpets of this period by unearthing examples of animal-fig-ured carpets in various regions and then carrying out the dating of them, He placed them in a two century period, from the beginning of the 14th to the end of the 15th century. […]