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  • Number 1707

  • Material Wool

  • Style Prayer Rug

  • Type Anatolian

  • Origin Anatolian

  • Size 142 x 104

  • Age 1700

Story

This is a museum quality work of Islamic art.
It is a 300 year old prayer rug from the weaving town of Kula in western Anatolia. The color palette is predominately earthy with a subtle peachy red and an eye catching Islamic green with symbolic religious resonances.

The prayer design is based around the ๐™ข๐™š๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™— prayer niche which is mirrored within the field with a wide band (containing scrolling arabesques) that curls back inwards at the base of the field, a so-called "re-entrant" movement that recalls the "Bellini" or "keyhole" prayer rugs of the 15th century.

A bold calligraphic band runs across the top of the ๐™ข๐™š๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™— arch. It presents a beautifully written rhyming couplet of Arabic poetry signifying a direct call to prayer:

ุนุฌู„ูˆุง ุจุงู„ุตู„ุงุฉ ู‚ุจู„ ุงู„ููˆุช
ูˆ ุนุฌู„ูˆุง ุจุงู„ุชูˆุจุฉ ู‚ุจู„ ุงู„ู…ูˆุช

๐™ƒ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฎ๐™š๐™ง ๐™—๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š
๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™›๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š

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