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11-Feb-2015 Dick Osseman

Antalya Museum feb 2015 4857.jpg

Uşak medallion carpet, 16th century carpet. Detail.

Uşak (110 km west of Afyon) was one of the most important and renowned carpet centers in Ottoman times (late 15th to 18th century). Rug production is still going on today, but on a lesser level and with altered designs.
In the 17th century great quantities of Uşak carpets were made for the royal houses and the Christian churches of Europe. They are named according to their specific design: ‘star’, ‘medallion’, ‘bird’, ‘chintamani’ (or: leopard spot), ‘cloud band’ or after renaissance artists who included them in their paintings: ‘Holbein’ and ‘Lotto’, after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) and Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556).

16th/17th century ‘Large Medallion Uşak’-carpets have a dense, filigree-like drawing of small and well composed arabesque of blossoms, leaves and twigs, placed inside and around the medallion(s). In this piece, secondary half-medallions are placed along the edges of the main field.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Oriental Rugs, volume 4: Turkish’ (Zipper & Fritzsche) .

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