Number 1859
Material Wool
Style Prayer Rug
Type Anatolian
Origin Anatolian
Size 156 x 107
Age 1840
A beautiful and inspiring prayer carpet woven in the mid 1800s in the Anatolian village of Mucur (Mujur). The style is known as Majidi after the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Majid I (Abdul Mecit I) who reigned between 1839 and 1861. This was the period of the Tanzimat reforms which extended ultimately to a "renovation" of courtly arts. The resultant style is called Majidi or simply Ottoman Baroque. Large flower forms and leafy motifs take center stage.
The ππ¦π©π³π’π£ or prayer arch is a rambling silhouette that wraps around the field and crescendos to a climax at its top, floating on a crimson red ground both within and without its contours. It encompasses an imposing bouquet with a noticeable tulip, the favored Ottoman court flower. Below it (and mirror reversed above) are architectural motifs borrowed from actual imperial congregational mosque interior architecture: this form is called a ππ’π²π΄πΆπ³π’ and was an enclosed and elevated platform inside the principal prayer chamber of a mosque where members of the Ottoman royal family gathered to pray in private, secluded from the masses of faithful worshippers.
Perfect condition, excellent dye materials.
A collectible work of Islamic Art.
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