The Ornamented Style.
The most frequent border is the Medallion,a kind of truncated cartouche.The lateral mode is the most common.Of the 12 examples recorded here,six have a redground border,six are on blue,thus dispensing with the idea that red ground/red field layouts are unusual.This seems to be no distinguishing feature-the Ballard and Skolkloster pieces are surely from the same hands.Typically the borders display a 4 x4 layout.
Lateral style.
A rug last seen with Moshe Tabibnia was once in the possession of Raymond Bernadout,with a stop-over at John Eskenazi`s
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| 525-Tabibnia Hali 102(135) |
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| 526-Bristol-Hali 36-61 |
An example published by the Italian dealers "La Torre"in Venice
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| 527-Ghereh 41-84 |
The beautifully composed Ballard rug,now in the MET
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| 528-MET Ballard Ganzhorn 395 |
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| 529-Harman-Ionescu 19 |
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| 530-Pisa Collection Sothebys 10 January 1979-17 |
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| 531-Skokloster-Hali 55(119) |
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| 532-Ghereh 4-29 |
A rug in the Budapest Museum of applied Art has been ascribed to the later 17th century due to its shrunken field
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| 533-Budapest-Pasztor 12 |
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| 534-Tapis Turc 4 |
This is the only known large carpet of this type,with pretty colours but pedantic draftsmanship,a gift of Hans Calwer
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| 535-Staatsgalerie Stuttgart-Gantzhorn ill.396 |
The following without access info
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| 536 |
The below from the MAD in Paris,apparently never published in colour
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| 537-Hali 3-4-276 |
A carpet once with Alberto Boralevi featured both white cotton and red silk in the pile
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| 538 |
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| 539 |
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| 540-All fotos by kind permission of Alberto Boralevi |
One further example features the cut border.It first sold at Sothebys NY on 13 September 1995(1) for $5,750
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| 541-Sothebys 1995 |
It initially featured in the Exhibition"Looms of Splendour"and was then re-offered,refurbished, at Christies London where it brought 12,500 pounds Sterling
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| 542-Christies 2 October 2012-153 |
The carpet offered at Sothebys was remarkable for its yellow-ground border and fetched 8,625 pounds Sterling
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| 543-Sothebys October 1998(50) |
A carpet at Nagels brought 24,000 DM on 14 October 1991
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| 544-Nagels (1080) |
The following fetched 7,500 pounds at Lefevre`s in 1975
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| 545-Lefevre 16 May 1975(3) |
The following is one of five Lottos in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and was the subject of an article by Pamela Bensoussan.It seems not to have been published in colour
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| 546-Hali 3-4-276 |
A carpet from the Italian dealer Mirzakhanian seems curiously absent
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| 547- Hali 58(41) |
Medallion borders:Asymmetric form.
Only two examples are recorded here.The first was once owned by Schmutzler,and is now in the Museum of Art Collections in Bucharest
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| 548-Ionescu 47 |
The second example was published by Ulrich Schürmann in 1966
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| 549-Schürmann 16 |
Only six carpets in the ornamented style and with cloudband borders are registered here.The designs are all symmetric.
The carpet from Williamsburg,one of a number of pieces sold to the Museum by Beshir Galleries
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| 550-Lanier 22 |
Inventory Number 157 from the Black Church
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| 551-Brasov-Ionescu 31 |
Inventory number 1023 from Sigishoara has an illegible inscription
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| 552-Sigishoara-Ionescu 34 |
The following from the Church of Sanpetru
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| 553-Sanpetru Ionescu 233 |
Access info missing for the following fragment
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| 554 |
An example from the Fitzwilliam Museum
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| 555-PW Meister-24 |
Meander Borders.
From the collection of the painter Hans Purrmann,a piece in double width and with minor guards heralding the style of 19th century Kuba carpets
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| 556-Purrmann Collection |
One of the most prestigious of all Lottos is in the Jaquemart-Andree Museum in Paris,with carefully designed "substrate" medallions (see R.Pinner Hali 42-23)and an elaborate "ushak" type border
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| 557-Hali 47-40 |
Two other examples share a unusual border.The first,now in Nürnberg,was originally in the Church at Bistrita
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| 558-Nürnberg-Hali 172-37 |
Two fragments from what is surely the same rug are in the Volkerkunde Museum Munich
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| 559 |
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| 560-Munich |
Bird Palmette Border.
Comprising four large examples with "substrate"design.The following surfaced in Paris in 2012 and fetched $28,010.Re-offered six months later at Christies(23 April 2013)it failed to find a buyer
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| 561-Artcurial-Christies 23 April 2013-75(Chimchirian Collection) |
The most famous of these pieces is that from the Aita Collection,first sold at Lefevre`s on 16 May 1975 for 11,500 pounds Sterling.It sold at the Aita sale,Christies London,on 18 October 2001,for $117,090.Last seen with Moshe Tabibnia.
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| 562-Aita,Tabibnia,- Hali 118(60) |
A carpet from the Schwartzenberg Collection was exhibited in Vienna in 1932,but not since
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| 563-Schwartzenberg Collection-Wien 1932 |
A fourth example from Lefevre was republished in E.Herrmann`s second catalogue,having been withdrawn in London
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| 564-Herrmann SOT 2-1 (Lefevre April 1979-19) |
The borders of this group survived into 19th century Caucasian carpets
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| 565 |
Ragged-Leaf Key Border.
From the AAA Sale of 1932,double width
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| 566-AAA 8 January 1932-98 |
From the Bernheimer Sale of 14 February 1996(price realised:3220 pounds Sterling)
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| 567-Bernheimer Sale 24 |
Published by Lefevre in his Turkish carpets book
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| 568-Lefevre Thompson 8 |
A later piece with awkward field drawing and simplified border
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| 569-Meschoulam Hali 52(37) |
Other Borders.
The following sold at Christies London on 9 October 2006(47)for $24,685.It is the only carpet in the ornamented style recorded here with a Kufi border
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| 570-Christies April 2007-47 |
A carpet from the Hamburg Museum for Applied Arts has a rare Hooked-Star border,the only one in this group,although we have already seen three in the Kilim style.Anatolian style carpets do not employ this border
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| 571-Preysing 11 |
A large carpet with outstanding substrate design is in the Sforzesco castle in Milan,apparently lacking its borders
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| 572-Sforzesco |
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