A rectangular carpet with a thick orange border that has a dark green, red, and white geometric floral pattern. At the center is a smaller rectangle space that has a large red shape that is rectangle at the bottom and comes to a diamond shape at the top. It is detailed with a white border and above it is a simple geometric floral motif in green and red with a white background.
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The rectangular carpet lies flat vertically and has a thick orange border that has a dark green, red, and white geometric floral pattern. There is a smaller detailed white border outside of the larger border and a yellow inside border. At the center is a smaller rectangle space that has a large red shape that is rectangle at the bottom and comes to a diamond shape at the top. The shape has a circular detail at its bottom center, a smaller circular detail at its top, and is detailed with a small white border. Above the shape is a simple geometric floral motif in green and red with a white background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.153
Title
Prayer Carpet
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
rug
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey), Milas
Culture
Turkish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/214299

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wool
Dimensions
154 x 116 cm (60 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Gowing, Harborne W. Stuart, Peggy Coolidge, and the Estate of W.I. Stuart in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby H. Stuart, Jr.
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.153
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Prayer carpet with red field, two amulets, bottom of side borders not resolved. Two amulet motifs.

Warps: 2 Z spun S plied undyed ivory wool; warps on one level. Wefts: 1 Z spun yarn, in 1 + 1 construction in red and darker red wool. Pile: 2 Z spun S plied wool. Pile colors: red, light orange, yellow, blue-green, blue, purple, undyed ivory, black/brown (corrosive). Knots: symmetrical. 34 knots per vertical decimeter; 35 knots per horizontal decimeter; 1190 knots per square decimeter. Both selvedges: 4 flat bundles of 2 warps each wrapped in red weft wool. Top: 3/5 cm. of tapestry weave with approximately 1 cm. right to left flat transverse warp braid. Bottom: 1.5 cm. red tapestry weave, stripped.

Publication History

  • Walter B. Denny, Oriental Rugs, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C, 1979), p. 49, fig. 29

Exhibition History

  • Pride of the Village: Rugs and Kilims of Turkey, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/08/1988 - 10/09/1988
  • Enter Ye the Garden: Prayer Rugs of Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/26/1989 - 08/20/1989
  • Woven, Hammered, and Thrown: Textiles and Objects from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/22/1991 - 08/18/1991
  • Pattern and Purpose. Decorative Arts of Islam., Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/19/1994 - 07/03/1994
  • A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1999 - 01/02/2000
  • The Best Workmanship, the Finest Materials: Prayer Carpets of the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/03/2002 - 12/15/2002
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/06/2019 - 08/02/2021

Verification Level

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