Carpet Fragment

14th–15th century

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 460

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.

Artwork Details

Overview

Provenance

Title: Carpet Fragment
Date: 14th–15th century
Geography: Attributed to Turkey
Medium: Wool (warp, weft, and pile); symmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions: Textile: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm)
W. 11 1/2 in. (29.2cm)
Mount: H. 27 1/2 in. (69.9 cm)
W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Rugs
Credit Line: Gift of Nelly, Violet and Elie Abemayor, in memory of Michel Abemayor, 1978
Object Number: 1978.546.54
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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