Carpet Fragment

Unknown

14th–15th century · Wool (warp, weft, and pile); symmetrically knotted pile · Islamic Art

This irregular-shaped fragment is decorated with rows of hook motifs and stylized leaves in dark blue, green, and yellow on a red ground. This design once was repeated on a larger surface to fill the main field of an Anatolian carpet. The geometric aspect of the composition relates this fragment to the earlier period (13th–14th centuries; Seljuq and Beyliq periods) of which only few examples survive. The interlocking hocked motifs, however, – probably stylized vine scrolls – connect it with later carpets (for example, the famous Lotto carpets from the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries), that were woven in western Anatolia under the Ottomans.

Artist

Unknown

Date

14th–15th century

Medium

Wool (warp, weft, and pile); symmetrically knotted pile

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Gift of Nelly, Violet and Elie Abemayor, in memory of Michel Abemayor, 1978