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The document discusses the collection of classical carpets from Spain, Egypt, and Syria held by the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. It notes that the museum has acquired 13 carpets representing the early styles of these regions. The collection includes 5 Spanish carpets from the 15th century and 8 carpets from Egypt and Syria, establishing an important nucleus of historical carpets for the museum to build upon. The document provides historical context on the trade and stylistic influences of carpets across the Mediterranean region between the 13th-17th centuries.
The document discusses the collection of classical carpets from Spain, Egypt, and Syria held by the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. It notes that the museum has acquired 13 carpets representing the early styles of these regions. The collection includes 5 Spanish carpets from the 15th century and 8 carpets from Egypt and Syria, establishing an important nucleus of historical carpets for the museum to build upon. The document provides historical context on the trade and stylistic influences of carpets across the Mediterranean region between the 13th-17th centuries.
The document discusses the collection of classical carpets from Spain, Egypt, and Syria held by the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. It notes that the museum has acquired 13 carpets representing the early styles of these regions. The collection includes 5 Spanish carpets from the 15th century and 8 carpets from Egypt and Syria, establishing an important nucleus of historical carpets for the museum to build upon. The document provides historical context on the trade and stylistic influences of carpets across the Mediterranean region between the 13th-17th centuries.
WITHTHEIR EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY, the product of striking juxtapositions of shimmering colour and complex but carefully balanced designs, over the past century the classical carpets of Spain, Egypt and Syria have been studied in great depth and avidly sought after by museums and private collectors alike. 1 The Spanish and East Mediterranean carpets acquired by the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage (now the Qatar Museums Authority) represent a substantial holding, given that many of the earliest examples still extant the most beautiful and those in the finest condition were already in European and American museums by 1930. In the latter part of the 20th century the MIAQ has nevertheless been able to purchase a handful of wonderful pre-1600 carpets and fragments in good original pile with glowing colours that had remained in private hands, as well as other examples at auction. We should consider this small group as a nucleus to be built upon. The pan-Mediterranean textile trade, including carpets, dates back to antiquity, but a strong local style can be seen in the few surviving Spanish carpets from the 14th and early 15th centuries. Egyptian carpets from the second half of the 15th century and before also show relatively little outside inf luence. The 15th century was a time of conquest and a period of expansion in trade in the Mediterranean region. By the early 16th century, f loral Ottoman court designs, taken from textiles and ceramics made in western Anatolia, were beginning to inf luence carpet making in both Spain and Islamic North Africa. In Spain such designs, in tandem with the stylistic inspiration of Spanish woven silk patterns, came to dominate carpet making, and they were also inf luential in Egypt. Carpet design in Syria, however, then still part of the Mamluk Empire, took on a so-called international style, drawing on inf luences from Egypt, eastern Anatolia and Iran, that was to continue into the 17th century. As the Ottomans looked west, expanding into the Balkans, Egypt and North Africa, their inclusive attitude to all peoples provided they paid their taxes made their Empire a centre for trade. The Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Spains Jews and Muslims did much to facilitate Mediterranean commerce, with networks of trading families resettled in different ports. From the 13th to 15th century, Spanish carpets were being exported to France and Italy, and during the 15th and 16th Italy became the principal importer of carpets from Anatolia and Egypt. Many of the oldest surviving Syrian carpets can also be To date, the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage of the Emirate of Qatar has acquired ve historical Spanish carpets and eight from Egypt and Syria for the new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. It is these that are the focus of the second in our series of in-depth surveys of the MIAQ collection. An unabridged version, with additional images and extensive notes, appears on www.hali.com. of a museum 2: IBERIAN & EAST MEDITERRANEAN CARPETS INTHE MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA masterpieces MICHAEL FRANSES 1 The Convent of Santa Ursula large octagon carpet (lower part), Spain, 15th century. 1.03 x 2.50m (3'5" x 8'2"), Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, CA24. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 69 WITHTHEIR EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY, the product of striking juxtapositions of shimmering colour and complex but carefully balanced designs, over the past century the classical carpets of Spain, Egypt and Syria have been studied in great depth and avidly sought after by museums and private collectors alike. 1 The Spanish and East Mediterranean carpets acquired by the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage (now the Qatar Museums Authority) represent a substantial holding, given that many of the earliest examples still extant the most beautiful and those in the finest condition were already in European and American museums by 1930. In the latter part of the 20th century the MIAQ has nevertheless been able to purchase a handful of wonderful pre-1600 carpets and fragments in good original pile with glowing colours that had remained in private hands, as well as other examples at auction. We should consider this small group as a nucleus to be built upon. The pan-Mediterranean textile trade, including carpets, dates back to antiquity, but a strong local style can be seen in the few surviving Spanish carpets from the 14th and early 15th centuries. Egyptian carpets from the second half of the 15th century and before also show relatively little outside inf luence. The 15th century was a time of conquest and a period of expansion in trade in the Mediterranean region. By the early 16th century, f loral Ottoman court designs, taken from textiles and ceramics made in western Anatolia, were beginning to inf luence carpet making in both Spain and Islamic North Africa. In Spain such designs, in tandem with the stylistic inspiration of Spanish woven silk patterns, came to dominate carpet making, and they were also inf luential in Egypt. Carpet design in Syria, however, then still part of the Mamluk Empire, took on a so-called international style, drawing on inf luences from Egypt, eastern Anatolia and Iran, that was to continue into the 17th century. As the Ottomans looked west, expanding into the Balkans, Egypt and North Africa, their inclusive attitude to all peoples provided they paid their taxes made their Empire a centre for trade. The Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Spains Jews and Muslims did much to facilitate Mediterranean commerce, with networks of trading families resettled in different ports. From the 13th to 15th century, Spanish carpets were being exported to France and Italy, and during the 15th and 16th Italy became the principal importer of carpets from Anatolia and Egypt. Many of the oldest surviving Syrian carpets can also be To date, the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage of the Emirate of Qatar has acquired ve historical Spanish carpets and eight from Egypt and Syria for the new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. It is these that are the focus of the second in our series of in-depth surveys of the MIAQ collection. An unabridged version, with additional images and extensive notes, appears on www.hali.com. of a museum 2: IBERIAN & EAST MEDITERRANEAN CARPETS INTHE MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA masterpieces MICHAEL FRANSES 1 The Convent of Santa Ursula large octagon carpet (lower part), Spain, 15th century. 1.03 x 2.50m (3'5" x 8'2"), Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, CA24. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 69 WITH THEIR EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY, the product of striking juxtapositions of shimmering colour and complex but carefully balanced designs, over the past century the classical carpets of Spain, Egypt and Syria have been studied in great depth and avidly sought after by museums and private collectors alike. 1 The Spanish and East Mediterranean carpets acquired by the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage (now the Qatar Museums Authority) represent a substantial holding, given that many of the earliest examples still extant the most beautiful and those in the finest condition were already in European and American museums by 1930. In the latter part of the 20th century the MIAQ has nevertheless been able to purchase a handful of wonderful pre-1600 carpets and fragments in good original pile with glowing colours that had remained in private hands, as well as other examples at auction. We should consider this small group as a nucleus to be built upon. The pan-Mediterranean textile trade, including carpets, dates back to antiquity, but a strong local style can be seen in the few surviving Spanish carpets from the 14th and early 15th centuries. Egyptian carpets from the second half of the 15th century and before also show relatively little outside inf luence. The 15th century was a time of conquest and a period of expansion in trade in the Mediterranean region. By the early 16th century, f loral Ottoman court designs, taken from textiles and ceramics made in western Anatolia, were beginning to inf luence carpet making in both Spain and Islamic North Africa. In Spain such designs, in tandem with the stylistic inspiration of Spanish complex woven silk patterns, came to dominate carpet making, and they were also inf luential in Egypt. Carpet design in Syria, however, then still part of the Mamluk Empire, took on a so-called international style, drawing on inf luences from Egypt, eastern Anatolia and Iran, that was to continue in use into the 17th century. As the Ottomans looked west, expanding into the Balkans, Egypt and North Africa, their inclusive attitude to all peoples provided they paid their taxes made their Empire a centre for trade. The Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Spains Jews and Muslims did much to facilitate Mediterranean commerce, with networks of trading families resettled in different ports. From the 13th to 15th century, Spanish carpets were being exported to France and Italy, and during the 15th and 16th Italy became the principal importer of carpets from Anatolia and Egypt. Many of the oldest surviving Syrian carpets can also be traced back to Renaissance Italy. To date, the National Council for Culture, Arts & Heritage of the Emirate of Qatar has acquired ve historical Spanish carpets and eight from Egypt and Syria for the new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. It is these that are the focus of the second in our series of in-depth surveys of the MIAQ collection. An abridged version of this article, without references or citations, appears in HALI 157, Autumn 2008. of a museum 2: IBERIAN & EAST MEDITERRANEAN CARPETS IN THE MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA masterpieces MICHAEL FRANSES 1 The Convent of Santa Ursula large octagon carpet (detail), Spain, 15th century. Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, no.CA24. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS SPANISH CARPETS Spanish carpets have been collected by some of the most sophis- ticated of connoisseurs, 2 often acquired through specialist dealers in Spain, Italy, Germany, England and America. 3 My research arch - ive contains images of at least 260 knotted-pile carpets made in Spain before 1750, including fragments. Most examples are now in museum collections. 4 The MIAQ has five knotted-pile Spanish carpets, one perhaps from the 15th century and four from the 16th. One is complete, two appear to be complete but are in fact part of larger carpets, and two are fragments. The museum has none of the later looped- pile carpets from Alpujarra, nor any of the rare knotted-pile or more common embroidered Arrialos carpets from Portugal. 5 This tiny group obviously cannot properly represent the history of carpet-making in the Iberian Peninsula, but it does offer a glim - pse of the carpet art of the region. To appreciate its significance and merit, and to comprehend the rarity and importance of Span ish carpet-making in general, we should brief ly consider the surviving corpus. Most early Spanish carpets are made using a single warp with offset knotting, a technique that may have come to Spain from Egypt between the 8th and 10th centuries. A few pile carpet frag - ments from this early period woven entirely in this so-called Spanish technique have been found in Fustat (old Cairo), 6 although its origin is undoubtedly much earlier, as it occurs in combination with other techniques on some knotted-pile car pets from the 1st century AD found in Central Asia. 7 R.B. Serjeant tells us of Arabic documents that mention carpet-making in Spain from the 10th century, although they do not say how rugs were constructed, and give little descriptive information. 8 The Spanish technique was also being used in central Europe by the 12th century, as can be seen from the large fragments of carpets in Halberstadt and Quedlinburg. 9 Single warp offset knotting is less robust than other methods, so the finer and older Spanish carpets with short-cut pile tend to be easily worn, often torn, and are now mostly fragmented. Cutting and patching occurred quite early on, as can be seen in two 15th century rugs depicted in 16th century European paint - ings. 10 Today different parts of one carpet may be found in a number of different collections, and what seem to be complete carpets may have patches from one or more other examples. 11 Spanish carpets were exported to many parts of Europe, and it is said that Eleanor of Castile introduced them to England in 1255. 12 A carpet, probably Spanish, is depicted in a fresco from the first half of the 14th century in the Palace of the Popes in Avignon. 13 Its field of rows of conjoined small octagons separ ated by diamonds, each octagon containing a single six-pointed star, resembles a number of surviving Spanish Admiral carpets attri - buted to the late 14th and 15th centuries. Monique King reports that: The property of Pope Clement V (reigned 130514) at Avignon included 54 pile carpets, and Pope John XXII is said to have had Spanish carpets with coats-of-arms in his apart ments at Avignon. The Bishop of Langres owned a pile carpet of Spanish manufacture in 1395. The Duke of Berry had no fewer than 13 Spanish carpets, mostly white grounds mostly 2.40 metres wide and 8.50 metres long. 14 Ferrandis Torres also lists many Spanish inventories that mention carpets from the 14th to 18th centuries in his important 1933 Madrid exhibition catalogue, Alfombras Antiguas Espanolas. 15 The earliest almost complete Spanish carpet to survive, usually att ributed to the 14th century, is in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, acquired by Wilhelm Bode in Munich in 1884. Much has been written about it, and it has been convincingly sugges ted that it was ordered for a synagogue. 16 Historical records exist of carpet making from the 12th cen - tury onward in Chinchilla, Cuenca, and Murcia, and from the 15th century in Letur, Litor, Alcaraz, Salamanca and Granada. 17 They tell us that Alcaraz was where Spanish rugs were sold, and that they were made in a number of small villages on a cottage industry basis in the province of Albacete in the Murcia region. These villages were probably inhabited by Mudejar Muslim weavers who stayed on after the Inquisition and into the second half of the 16th century. Today the labels Alcaraz and Cuenca are the most widely used, the former for finer 15th and 16th century examples, the latter for coarser late 16th to mid-18th century carpets. All the so-called Alcaraz carpets seem to be remarkably similar in wool, handle, weave and dyes. For classification purposes, I have divided Spanish carpets into groups representing basic field compositions rather than work - shops or places of manufacture. The same can be done with border patterns, which can be seen associated with several different field designs. 18 Among the oldest of surviving Spanish carpets, perhaps made from the late 14th or early 15th century until the early 16th, are those with field patterns composed of a small polygonal lattice. 19 At least 27 examples are known to survive. 20 They are commonly known as the Admiral carpets, because the fields of some exam - ples are overlaid with large escutcheons containing the coats-of- arms of the 15th century Admirals of Spain. 21 Inventories from the 14th century onward cite Spanish carpets bearing blazons. 22 Several of these lattice-field carpets are up to nine metres in length and no more than 2.5 metres wide. Their fields are sur - rounded by between three and seven borders, including one com posed of highly stylised Kufic script. On some carpets this kufesque border is filled with various creatures, trees and human figures, including women in low-cut European-style dresses, and at least two examples have a pictorial panel depicting trees and animals at each end. 23 Similar geometric lattice borders and pic - torial end panels are also seen on Spanish carpets with Turkish field designs. 24 Armorial blazons also appear on Spanish carpets with a num - ber of different eld designs throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Four examples, believed to be funeral carpets, have a central medallion with blazon and small medallions with skulls set against a textile pattern. At least nine others have blazons, some on a plain field, some with a decorated back ground. Span - ish coats-of-arms often appear on carpets with imported field designs: two have border and spandrel designs taken directly from early 17th century west Anatolian originals, another copies a small Ushak rug with a cloudband border, and at least four have field designs taken directly from Anatolian arab esque or Lotto design rugs. TURKISH-STYLE SPANISH CARPETS Turkish carpet designs, in particular those from western Ana tolia, inf luenced Spanish carpets most of all. The oldest surviving Spanish carpets with Turkish designs are attributed to the second or third quarters of the 15th century, but examples must have reached Spain by the 13th or 14th, as many Spanish copies present an earlier version of Turkish designs than any surviving Anatolian rug. 25 A Spanish carpet in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has a small-pattern Holbein field of rows of small interlaced medal - lions, commonly found on west Anatolian rugs from the 15th and 16th centuries. The primary medallions have perfect inter - laced surrounds, the internal octagon within each octagon has an interlaced pattern, and the green-ground field is enclosed by a wide border of Kufic motifs separated by large interlaced knots. 26 A carpet with different small interlaced medallions is in the Textile Museum, Washington DC. Another example, surviv ing as four fragments, has a tile- or ceiling-like field composed of a rectangular interlaced grid, each compartment of which is filled with a large interlaced medallion; the colours and border pattern suggests that this probably dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. 27 One of the most widely published of all 15th century Spanish carpets is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. With three per fec tly balanced columns of ten small octagons of the type 70 HALI ISSUE 157 2 The Convent of Santa Ursula large octagon carpet (lower part) Spain, 15th century. 1.03 x 2.50m (3'5" x 8'2"), Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, no.CA24. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 71 found on 15th and 16th century Anatolian carpets, it has an intense red colour and is in perfect condition. 28 Twenty Spanish carpets have a Turkish field composition con sis ting of of large octagons, usually known as the large- pattern Holbein design that appears on Anatolian and Syrian rugs dep ic ted in a number of 15th and 16th century paintings by various artists, including Hans Holbein. 29 Most of these carpets have a single large octagon placed in the centre of a large square or rectangular compartment or panel that is then repeated vertic ally, and often horizontally as well. Carpets with this pattern can be further sub-divided accord - ing to the octagon design. The first sub-group comprises six car - pets, all possibly from the second half of the 15th century, with a complex star medallion like that seen on an Anatolian rug dep - icted in 1486 by the Venetian artist Carlo Crivelli. 30 The second, of which two carpets survive (one split between two collect ions), both prob ably early 16th century, has an interlaced medallion. The third sub-group of large-octagon rugs, in which we find the second ary field ornament from the small-pattern Holbein inter - laced carpets at the centre of each octagon, is represented by a single surviving example, divided between three collections. The fourth sub-group, consist ing of one complete carpet and one small frag ment, has a field design of vertical and horizontal rows of octa gons in implied compartments with small second - ary motifs between. There are at least nine carpets (one divided between two col lections) in the fifth and final sub-group, which have wheel- like medal lions placed in the centre of each square shaped com - part ment. The type dates from the second half of the 15th cent ury and an example can be seen depicted in a painting from around 1530. 31 The MIAQ owns a most beautiful example of this last sub-group of Span ish Holbein carpets, with three large octagons 1, 2. This sub stantial section is the lower part of the ori ginal long carpet; the upper part, with four octagons, is in the Textile Museum, Wash ington DC. 32 There is no firm indication that the carpet was ever wider, but it could have been up to three columns in width. Reportedly acquired from the Convent of Santa Ursula in Guadala jara, north east of Madrid, both sections were once in Venice with the famous antique dealer Adolf Loewi. This lower section passed through Benadava in Paris and thence to the Wher Collection before coming to Doha. At both ends of the field we see an extra ivory-ground panel with a procession of lions, each in a different colour, but per - haps most interesting feature of the Spanish version of this pat - tern is that the central eight-pointed star is interlaced, creating the ill usion that the wheel is rotating. Once part of the original design concept, this refinement is seen in very few surviving Anatolian versions, yet it appears in all known Spanish ones. The ground of the square compartments surrounding each large octagon has a beautiful interlaced design, reminiscent of a woven textile, and the borders that divide the octagons and sur round the field are typically Spanish and have not been found in Anatolian examples. Among the best known of all historical Anatolian carpet pat - terns is the so-called arabesque or Lotto design, which first appears in a European painting in 1516 and continued in use in Ana tolian weaving until the end of the 17th century. 33 Almost all of the two hundred or so surviving Anatolian arabesque rugs have deep red grounds with the pattern in bright yellow outlined in black and det ails in blue and ivory, although a few have blue or brown grounds, and the pattern is very occasionally worked in blue or ivory. Over thirty Spanish carpets with the Turkish arabesque field design are known to survive, four of which include coats-of-arms. Spanish arabesque carpets appear to have yellow backgrounds, although it is likely they were originally red and the red dye has oxidized. The pattern is usually in blue and ivory. The most com mon border is a curled-leaf pattern. Spanish lampas designs. 36 The earliest of the carnation group is a fragmented carpet in Madrid, with a wide Kufic border, large interlaced knots, deep reds and strong colours. Other examples have softer tones (apart from the blue) and yellow grounds that were originally red. It has often been suggested that the oxidised red seen on many carpets made from the early 16th century onwards marks the time when Jews and Muslims left Spain; dyeing was traditionally a Jewish craft. Some of the carnation carpets made from the early 16th cent - ury onwards include birds, and two have the elegant Renaissance border pattern seen on the Qatar arabesque carpet 3. Related to the carnation rugs are a further 23 examples with single palm - ettes in a lattice. The f lowers and lattice are clearly European in style, but the concept can be seen in earlier Turkish models. During the 17th century Spanish carpet weavers continued to copy patterns from other regions. At least two carpets are known with medallion Ushak designs, and two with the so-called Smyrna or f loral Ushak design. At least one example copies a Cairene Ottoman design, and three more have designs copied from small Esfahan rugs, made in central Iran in the 16th and early 17th cen turies. One of these has a cartouche border, pos - sibly derived from a Damascus rug. Two early Spanish carpets survive that have a cloud pattern directly copied from a 14th century Mongol silk. 37 CARPETS WITH SPANISH SILK DESIGNS More than 150 Spanish carpets have designs derived from Span - ish woven silk textiles. The earliest of these have the strong red and Kufic borders with animals attributable to the 15th century. Four have a field pattern of lobed oval medallions either in a lattice or in diagonal rows, 38 and twelve have ascending palm - ettes within an interlaced lattice. 39 The lattice types and f loral patterns vary slightly and are used in different combinations. Another lattice field design, which must have been popular for some time, features compartments filled with a large ascen - ding side-view f lowers or palmettes. In 33 examples an ogival lattice is composed of two parallel stems. Six of these have the strong colours dateable to the late 15th and early 16th century, but the majority are from the second and third quarters of the 16th century. One of these, with a two-plane lattice with palm - ettes, probably from the mid- 16th century, is one of only two known Spanish classical carpets with silk pile. 40 The other known Spanish silk carpet, a corner section with part of the field and the major and minor borders, is in the MIAQ 4. 41 It is one of seven examples known (the others are woven in wool), with a design of palm ettes in a diamond- shaped lattice. Most of them have strong reds and Kufic borders, and are thought to date from the late 15th or early 16th century. The MIAQ fragment is extremely finely knotted and dates from the very beginning of the 16th century. The wide lattice is in yellow possibly originally red but now oxidised and the background is green. The palmettes are linked diagonally by stems that intersect the lattice; the primary border has a meandering stem with f lowers pointing alternately inward and outward on a light blue ground. Ten Spanish carpets have lattice designs that are unique sur vivors, including two with rampant lions, a pattern directly copied from Spanish woven silk textiles from the 15th century, and three with different Spanish silk brocade designs. 42 At least twenty-three unclassifiable fragments have other types of lattices, and are from the late 16th to the early 18th century; a few of the later examples are inscribed and some are dated. WREATH CARPETS The Anatolian design of rows of large octagons 2 must have inspired the largest single surviving group of Spanish carpets, those with rows of wreaths. In three of the earliest examples, the individual wreaths are placed within square compartments, MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 72 HALI ISSUE 157 The MIAQ has one Spanish arabesque carpet, with the design in brown on an ivory ground, surrounded by an elegant Renais - sance border of large leaves 3. 34 Originally from a European private collection, it was acquired at auction in London in 1999. One of the finest examples extant, it was prob ably made in the first half of the 16th century, The Anatolian arabesque pattern also inspired a new Spanish design of serrated leaves that form an oval lattice and concave diamonds. Seven examples are known. A further seven carpets are known with a textile pattern of diagonal rows of large car n - a tions directly copied from Ottoman silk velvets made in Bursa. 35 This pattern was developed further in Spain: four rugs include additional f lowers, in a marriage between Ottoman velvet and 3 The Qatar arab - esque carpet. Spain, 16th century. 2.83 x 5.49m (9'3" x 18'0"). MIAQ, no.TE26. 4 The Unger palm - ettes in diamond- shaped lattice silk carpet fragment, Spain, early 16th century. 0.58 x 0.76m (1'10" x 2'6"). MIAQ, no. TE12. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 73 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 74 HALI ISSUE 157 the corners of which have typical Anatolian patterns, while the wreaths are distinctively European in style. One of these three carpets, with greatly worn pile and prob ably reduced in size, is in the MIAQ 5. It was acquired at auction in London in 2007, having previously been on the art market in both Paris and New York. The two others are in Berlin and Miami. 43 On all other Spanish wreath carpets the columns and rows of wreaths have no containing compartments; in some of the oldest examples the secondary motif diagonally adjacent to the wreaths resembles the secondary motif on many Anatolian carpets. The MIAQ has one such fragment, with four wreaths and no borders 6. Once with Yves Mikaeloff in Paris, it was acquired at auction in London in 1997. Another section of this car pet, also with four wreaths but with parts of the border attached, was on the New York market some twenty years ago. 44 A small number of examples have different variations of the wreath pattern. The few publications to date on Spanish carpets have tended to focus on specific collections. The most important and best of these is still Alfombras Antiguas Espanolas, the rare catalogue by Ferrandis Torres for the 1933 Madrid exhibition, which brought together examples from a number of sources. Substantial research has been undertaken in European inventories for records of Spanish carpets, and some work has been done to collate their depictions in Western paintings, but there has not, to date, been any attempt to compile a complete catalogue of all surviving Spanish carpets, or to analyse them, 45 carry out dye tests, and in some instances carbon-14 analyses. The time is ripe for a major exhibition of the greatest Mudejar carpets perhaps the MIAQ will, in due course, accept the challenge? EAST MEDITERRANEAN CARPETS: EGYPT & SYRIA The MIAQ Collection includes eight knotted-pile carpets made in the East Mediterranean region in the 16th century. Six are attributable to Cairo and two to Damascus. Four of the Cairene rugs and one of the Damascus rugs (only a section of border of the other survives) are in the Mamluk style with designs of geometric motifs and small f loral elements in a predominantly red, green and blue palette. The other two carpets from Cairo are more colourful, in the more naturalistic Ottoman f loral style. Knotted-pile carpets have probably been made in the Levant and Anatolia since the second millennium BC or before. 46 Wool- pile f loor coverings were made in Egypt before 2000 BC, 47 although in these earliest surviving Egyptian carpets the pile is looped around the warps, rather than being individually tied and knotted. It is not known when the knotted-pile technique was first used in Egypt, but it may go back at to at least 500 BC. The oldest, almost complete, knotted-pile carpet currently known to have been found in Egypt has been carbon-14 dated to 580920 AD, although the materials suggest that it may have been made in Anatolia. 48 Many tiny fragments of knotted-pile carpets have also been found in the rubbish dumps of Fustat. The oldest of these are from the Abbasid period (7581258): some may have been made in Egypt, others could be from Meso - potamia, Anatolia and Iberia. 49 There are Arabic references to 14th century carpets made in Cairo, 50 but no actual examples survive that can be conclusively linked to this period. 51 Carl Johann Lamm found two small fragments in Fustat that may represent carpet weaving from the mid-15th century. 52 5 The Paris wreaths in com - partments carpet. Spain, 16th cent - ury. Three comp - lete com part - ments with end panels, reduced in size from a larger carpet.1.02 x 2.89m (3'4" x 9'6") MIAQ, no.TE106. 6 The Mikaeloff wreaths carpet fragment, Spain, early 16th century. 1.40 x 1.31m (4'7" x 4'4"). MIAQ 7 The Milan circu lar Mamluk carpet (detail), Cairo, Egypt, 16th cent ury. MIAQ, no.TE07 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 75 MAMLUK-STYLE CARPETS The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517) was centred on Egypt, but also embraced parts of south and central Anatolia, including the Mala taya region, all of present-day Syria west of the Euphrates, the entire eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, as well as parts of present-day Jordan, Libya and Tunisia. Its principal cities were Cairo and Damascus. The Mamluks are known for their beautiful glassware, extraordinary metalwork, intricate wood-carving and kaleidoscopic silk-like carpets. Carpets in the Mamluk-style (I use this term because most sur viving examples were probably made after the Ottomans over - threw the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517), stand very much on their own among oriental rugs, with their unique blend of shimmer - ing wine-red, green and light blue tones, their silky wool and, above all, their exquisite variety of accurately drawn ornaments, large and small, in intricate arrangements. These carpets are now generally thought to have been made in Cairo, having first been thus attributed by some of the earliest carpet scholars. 53 However, because their patterns do not stylis- tically sit comfortably with the other Mamluk court arts, for many years the traditional Cairo label was not accepted by all experts, and some more recent writings have put forward alter - native, less convincing, places of origin. 54 The survival of a small number of carpets bearing the blazon of the Mamluk Sultan Qait Bay strengthens the attribution of these examples (and many others) to Cairo, 55 while the redis covery in 1983 by Alberto Boralevi of a hitherto unknown Mamluk-style carpet in the Medici Pitti Palace in Florence helps to establish the argument in favour of Cairo as the centre of production, 56 as an inventory record from 1587 calls the Medici carpet Cairino. 57 In pristine condition, its virtual pair is in San Rocco in Venice. 58 Recently published research by Marco Spallanzani informs us that in 1545 Iacopo Capponi went to Alexandria with instruc - tions to buy various things for Duke Cosimo I de Medici, inc lud - ing an unspecified number of rugs to be made to order, which were shipped to Livorno in 1547. Inventory records from the late 14th to the late 17th century report carpets coming from Cairo. 59 These must represent only a fraction of the Mamluk-style carpets that arrived in Italy, for there is little doubt that the vast majority were imported via this route. My archive contains images of 136 Mamluk-style carpets made in Egypt during the 15th and 16th centuries, divisible into groups by approximate age and by design detail. 60 Arguably the oldest surviving example is the Salvadori fragment in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 61 Four carpets from the same period bearing the blazon of Sultan Qait Bay (r.1468-1496) were almost certainly made in Cairo in the second half of the 15th century. 62 These five, along with others in various collections that were probably originally from larger carpets with three central medal - lions, represent the so-called first-period of Mamluk carpet weaving, prior to 1500. 63 A second group of nearly thirty Mamluk-style carpets, rugs and fragments can attributed to the first quarter of the 16th century. Another hundred or so were probably made during the second and third quarters of the 16th century. Thereafter the Cairene workshops that made the Mamluk-style carpets were engaged in making carpets in the new Ottoman style, using identical dyes and materials. At least eight carpets are known that rep resent a transitional group with elements of both styles. 64 From the mid- 14th century a parallel development was probably occurring in the northern Mamluk capital of Damascus in Syria, where carpet design was being inf luenced by or inf luencing designs in Anatolia and Iran. Assigning carpets to particular periods is fairly arbitrary and depends on a number of features. Pre-1500 Mamluk-style pieces tend to have longer pile, natural-coloured warps, a looser con - struction and more colours than those of later periods. Carpets from the first and second periods tend to have between five and seven colours, some have red-dyed warps, and they often have MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 76 HALI ISSUE 157 8. The Arhan Mamluk carpet. Cairo, Egypt, 16th century. 2.51 x 3.08m (8'3" x 10'1"). MIAQ,no. A22 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS the general composition of the Habsburg silk Mamluk carpet in Vienna, a large central compartment surrounded by smaller, square ones, to the 15th-16th century mosaics on the f loor of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo. 73 The basic composition of the Mamluk carpets, based on a centralised motif surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of rectangular and square compartments, is probably derived from pavements and mosaic f loors of the Roman period. Similar compositions can also be seen on Egyptian Coptic textiles from the 3rd to 9th centuries. The f loor is a ref lection of the heavens above, and it is unsurprising that similar compositions appear on later Islamic ceiling patterns. Many Mamluk carpets have a single central medallion, but there are more than thirty large format examples with either three or five medallions. 74 Almost all Mamluk carpet patterns are designed to be viewed from all directions, perhaps because they were intended to mirror ceiling patterns. However, there are three Mamluk rugs with directional designs indicating that they were made to hang on a wall, in front of a cupboard, or as a doorway. 75 The ornamentation of Mamluk carpets draws upon a wide range of artistic sources and has been of intense interest to scholars. Studying one of the Ballard Collection Mamluk rugs in St Louis in 1925, Rudolf Riefstahl compared a motif composed of a palm tree f lanked by two cypresses, commonly found on later Mamluk carpets, to Assyrian stone decoration from the 7th century BC. 76 Some ornaments, such as the octagons, the interlace and various minor details, form part of an international style seen on rugs from Spain to India. Other minor motifs are specific to Cairene carpets and can be traced from medieval western Islamic decoration back to Hellenistic art. Some, such as the umbrella and lancet leaves, have been explained as a conscious return to Egyptian ornament. The designs on the earliest Mamluk carpets are extremely complex and well- proportioned, whereas later the patterns are simplified. Although the patterns of Mamluk carpets are mostly com - posed of octagons, eight-pointed stars and compartments, other designs were also used. Four surviving carpets have a two-level diamond lattice, each compartment containing a single f lower. 77 Two of them have the traditional Mamluk border of a cartouche alternating with a lobed medallion, and two have a design of large tulips, which continued to be used on rugs with Ottoman field designs. They were probably made in the second or third quarters of the 16th century, after the transition from Mamluk to Ottoman styles had begun. The MIAQ has four Mamluk-style carpets made in Cairo in the 16th century. They are all from the third period, and two are major works of art, retaining much of their original pile and colour. So many Mamluk carpets are extensively restored, so to find two with original pile is a great bonus. The Arhan Mamluk carpet 8, reportedly with the same Turk - ish family for over seventy years, was acquired by the MIAQ in 1997. 78 Probably made in the second quarter of the 16th century, it has just three colours, red, green and blue. The red (lac) has corroded, while the blue (indigo) and green pile is quite high in places, giving a sculpted effect. The carpet had been folded for many years: along the fold lines are some tiny holes, probably caused by moth and now skillfully restored. 79 The drawing is remarkably good, and the serrated edge of the eight-pointed star medallion is also found on some second period carpets. An extra panel at each end of the field contains large circular medallions alternating with groups of three trees: a palm f lanked by cypresses. A special feature, in the inner and outer minor borders, is the three balls and wavy lines of the Ottoman intamani symbol. Four circular carpets from Cairo are known. Three of them have Mamluk geometric designs: the Barbieri carpet in the Brus chettini Foundation, Genoa; the Olmutz carpet at Kremsier Castle in the Czech Republic; and the Milan carpet in the MIAQ. 80 The fourth, a later example in the Corcoran Gallery of HALI ISSUE 157 77 bands of stylised Kufic script. Those from the third period gen - erally have just three colours, yellow-dyed warps and simple cartouche borders. A general simplification of pattern seems to have occurred over time. Such differences probably represent the output of different Cairene workshops in at different times, rather than alternative places of origin. 65 Other writers on the subject take a different view. Jenny Housego has proposed a Maghrebi (northwest African) origin for all Mamluk car pets. 66 Jon Thompson has tentatively sugges - ted that the early examples were made in Cairo, as one was found there, but that the main corpus was made elsewhere, perhaps in Syria, close to the Mamluk Sultanates northern frontier with Turkey, while also suggesting that the Maghrebi possibility should be explored further for the main group. 67 Carlo Suriano has also divided Mamluk carpets into two groups, one made in the Huaran district or Shawbak in Syria, and the other in Cairo. 68 His argument refers to Charles Grant Ellis, 69 who wrote that several of the earlier Mamluk carpets have distinctive technical differences from later ones, including multiple wefts, unusually long pile and abnormal colouring, although both groups share the technical features of S-spun wool and asym metric knot ting. Ellis attributes this small group to the Maghreb and the main group to Cairo. Surianos desire to return the bulk of Mamluk carpets to Syria may have been inspired by Thompsons 1980 article, or by the many earlier and contemporaneous refer - ences to Syrian carpet making, or by the fact that S-spun wool was found in Iraq, but his discus sion omits any reference to the evidence that the Medici Mamluk came from Cairo. At least fifteen European paintings are known that depict identifiable Mamluk-style carpets from Cairo, 70 the earliest being Paris Bordones Fisherman Presenting St Marks Ring to the Doge, painted about 1540. Thompson shows that Bordones carpet, with a medallion set against a plain field, is similar to the Bardini blazon carpet in Florence, which is attributed to the end of the 15th century. 71 Bordones carpet may thus have been fifty or more years old when he painted it. However, the Mamluk carpets depicted in the famous Moretto frescos in Brescia belong to a later generation with simpler patterns, and may therefore have been less than twenty years old when they were painted in 1543. Mamluk-style carpets from Cairo continue to appear in Europ ean paintings through the 16th and early 17th centuries. All carpets made in Cairo from the 15th to 17th centuries share a distinctive woven structure: the wool is mostly S-spun and Z-plied, the opposite of almost all other oriental rugs of whatever age or place of origin. The knots are asymmetric, similar to the technique used in Syria, central and eastern Iran, India and China. In the earliest examples the warps tend to be undyed, with red-dyed wefts, although occasionally both warps and wefts are red. On the vast majority of examples in the third group, the warps and wefts are dyed yellow or yellow-green, a feature that continued in use for later 16th and early 17th century Ottoman-style rugs. The long-staple wool used for the warps and pile is very glossy, resembling silk. A unique example knot - ted in silk on a silk foundation survives in the sterreichisches Museum fr angewandte Kunst in Vienna. 72 Earlier Mamluk-style carpets tend to be knotted with five or seven colours (red, green, blue, yellow, ivory, purple and brown), while later ones use as few as three (red, green and blue). As on Indian and Iranian carpets, the red is created from the insect dye lac, and is often corroded, while the blue is dyed with indigo, which tends to preserve the wool. On a rug that has seen little wear, the blue areas are often higher than the red, giving an embossed effect. Lac appears to have been used less often on examples from the second half of the 16th century, which achieve a similar colour from the related insect dye cochineal, although the latter rarely has the depth of colour given by lac. The unique colour spectrum and spectacular kaleidoscopic ornamentation of Mamluk carpets is drawn from some of the best of Islamic art and design. In 1924, Friedrich Sarre related MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 78 HALI ISSUE 157 Art in Washington has an Ottoman field design. 81 There is good evidence that round carpets were made for royal and imperial tents in Iran, India and China, and there is every reason to think that round Mamluk carpets were used the same way in Egypt. When they arrived in Europe, such carpets were used as table covers. The 1587 Medici archives in Florence mention a circular cairino carpet, 82 and two round Mamluks appear in the 1596 Innsbruck inventory of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Austria, 83 who received one as a gift from the Medici court. 84 The round carpet in the MIAQ 7, 9 was probably made early in the second quarter of the 16th century. Its beauty lies in its rich colours (red, blue, green and yellow) and its lustrous pile, having survived in pristine condition for almost five centuries. The fact that all its original edges are still intact suggests that they were once bound with a tape or silk cloth. The other two Mamluk-style carpets in the MIAQ collection, a rather worn rug 10 and a small fragment from a large carpet 11, are both study pieces, acquired at auction in London in 1996 and 1998 respectively. 85 The rug, with a medallion and bands of cyp - resses and palm trees, was formerly in the Bern heimer Collect - ion, Munich, while the fragment had appeared on the London market a number times since the early 1980s. It is unlikely that the MIAQ will be able to acquire a first period Mamluk carpet, but a few second period examples remain in private hands, and an early example would certainly be a strong addition to the two outstanding carpets already in the collection. 9 The Milan circular Mamluk carpet, Cairo, Egypt, 16th century. 2.78 x 2.26m (9'1" x 7'1"). MIAQ, no.TE07 CAIRENE OTTOMAN CARPETS Almost a hundred rugs and carpets with f loral designs survive from Cairene workshops. Scholars generally agree that the first Ottoman design rugs were made there. Ernst Khnel tells us that the connection with Mamluk rugs [is] undeniable, because of the similarity of the material... More important and even con - clu sive is the frequent mention of Cairene rugs expressly called in French, German, Italian, and Spanish inventories of the XVIth-XVIIth centuries. Their beauty is repeatedly emphasised by comparison with the famous Persian carpets, and in some instances they are classified as Turkish rugs from Cairo. 86 Despite this, some authors, including Khnel, have conjec t - ured that certain Ottoman court rugs, especially the finest niche rugs and related examples with similar structure may have been made somewhere closer to the court, in either Bursa or Istanbul. This suggestion was occasioned by a single document which refers to ...eleven rug masters of Cairo, mentioned by name, who had been ordered to the court of Constantinople in 1585, together with their load of wool. 87 Citing Kurt Erdmann, Khnel proposed that these rug masters most certainly had to run a manufactory working for the Turkish Sultan, and that this factory was most probably located in Bursa. 88 This attempt to establish that Bursa was a rug producing centre in the latter part of the 16th century is based on two further documents, one of 1474, the second in 1525 (which mentions six rug-makers and nine workmen). 89 In fact, the confusion dates back to the early 20th century when F.R. Martin described the Imperial Austrian Ottoman f loral field niche rug, without evid - ence, as being from unspecified Ottoman Imperial manufac- tories in Asia Minor. 90 So when, in 1938, Erdmann published his 1585 reference to the Egyptian weavers arriving in Turkey, the attribution was adopted unquestioned by almost every subsequent carpet scholar. 91 In 1981, after a number of Ottoman carpets had been phys ic - ally analysed and the evidence reviewed, the proposed Turkish attribution was shown to be unsound. Examination of the twelve Ottoman carpets in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as a large number of other examples in European public and private collections led Robert Pinner and me to con clude that: The question, which of the known Ottoman f loral carpets were produced in Turkey seemed at one time to be ans wered by the identification of two major groups: one, of relat ively coarsely- woven rugs with both the foundation and the pile in wool, and with its structure and colour closely related to Mamluk carpets, and a second group of more finely woven carpets, with silk warps and wefts, and with a pile consisting not only of wool but also white, and sometimes blue, cotton. The attribution of the latter group to Istanbul or Bursa appeared to be sup por ted by the 10 The Bernheimer Mamluk rug with medallion and bands of cypress and palm trees. Cairo, Egypt, 16th century. 1.37 x 2.04m (4'6" x 6'8). MIAQ, no.CA04. 11 Mamluk carpet fragment. Cairo, Egypt, 16th century. Field section, 0.49 x 1.91m (1'7" x 6'3"). MIAQ, no.CA06. 1980s, which establish that the red dye in Mamluk rugs was mostly lac, 96 while of the two Ottoman carpets he tested, the red of one was lac, the other cochineal, which allows the possibility of using dye-analysis to separate the Ottoman carpets into an earlier and a later group, with, of course, the usual reservations about the length of the period during which both dyes were used, and the uncertainty of the mid-point. 97 It is possible that some Cairene Ottoman design rugs pre-date a few Mamluk design rugs. The Medici carpet, con sidered on styl - istic grounds to be the latest known example of its type, from between 1557 and 1571, may suggest that Ottoman designs were being made in Cairo from at least the beginning of the third quarter of the 16th century, if not a little before. We may also assume that the earliest examples in the new Ottoman style were still quite similar to Mamluk rugs. 98 The very finely knotted silk-foundation niche rugs with highly refined designs may well have begun to be made by the latter part of the 16th century. There are two Cairene Ottoman carpets in the MIAQ collec tion. The finer of the two is a large carpet acquired at auction from the English country house Hackwood Park in 1998 11. It is very finely woven, with superb drawing and composition, 99 but while the wefts and warps are almost all original, there is hardly an original knot left on the carpet. The clarity of drawing and fine articulation of pattern strongly suggests that it pre-dates the Medici Ottoman carpet and can be ascribed to the beginning of the third quarter of the 16th century. Certainly the restoration followed the original pattern faithfully, so the Hackwood carpet remains a very good document of an Ottoman carpet pattern. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS fact that both the silk and the cotton were Z-spun in a non- Egyptian manner. 92 The apparent contradic t ion, pres en ted by the fact that the wool was mainly S-spun, i.e., as in Mamluk and Cairene Ottoman carpets, was exp lained by adherents of this theory, by the suggestion that the pile wool was imported [into Turkey] from Egypt. 93 Alberto Boralevis discovery of the two great Cairene carpets of the Medici in the warehouses of the Pitti Palace is of inestim - able importance in this discussion. Of greater significance here even than the Medici Mamluk is the Ottoman carpet, also in excel lent condition. 94 Boralevi writes of it: As stated in the inventory, the Ottoman carpet was brought as a gift to the Grand Duke Fernando II in the year 1623 by the Admiral Da Verrazzano, possibly a descendant of the great navigator, 95 and concludes: The evidence of the Archives, which defines the Ottoman as Cairene, supports the theory according to which all these carpets were manufactured in the same Egyptian workshops during the Ottoman Empire. The 1623 inventory date of the Medici carpet provides the only reliable benchmark for dating Cairene Ottoman rugs. From its present-day appearance we may assume that it was new at the time of acquisition, and we may further assume that the work - shops producing rugs of this type probably continued to do so throughout the 17th century. However, stylistically the Medici carpet marks the decline of the artistic tradition, and it is likely that several of the finer Ottoman niche rugs pre-date it. There is also some lim ited assistance to be drawn from tests of Mamluk and Ottoman carpet dyes performed by Mark Whiting in the 80 HALI ISSUE 157 12 The Hackwood Park Cairene Otto man medallion carpet. Cairo, Egypt, 3rd quarter 16th century. 2.81 x 5.17m (9'3" x 17'0"). MIAQ, no.CA05. 13 The Bernheimer Ottoman medallion rug. Cairo, Egypt, 16th century. 1.32 x 1.91m (4'4" x 6'3"). MIAQ, no.CA63 14 The Muse East Med iterranean car touche-border car pet (detail), Damascus, Syria, 15th or 16th century. MIAQ, no.TE14 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 81 The second Cairene Ottoman rug in the MIAQ 12, acquired at auction in London in 2004, was for merly in the Bernheimer family collection, having been acquired by Otto Bernheimer in 1919. 100 It belongs to a group of small-format rugs, several of which have exactly the same colours and dimensions as some of the small Mamluk-style rugs, and represent a continuum from the same workshops. While the pattern is reasonably clear, the drawing is not quite as refined as on the more finely knotted examples. The round green medallion and green quartered medallions in the corners are typical. At each end of the field are small circular half-medallions. The f loral pattern in the background appears as a section from an endless repeat that disappears beneath the borders and medallions. The medallions also create the illusion of an infinite repeat design, a section of which is framed by the borders. Other workshops in Cairo produced small rugs, some very finely knotted with much crisper renderings of Ottoman f loral designs, in particular a group of prayer rugs, several of which are on a silk foundation. Both Cairene Ottoman carpets in Doha should be viewed primarily as study pieces. However, there is every possibility that this area of the collection can be raised to the level of the Mamluk examples in the foreseeable future. MAMLUK-STYLE CARPETS FROM SYRIA Carpets must have been made in present-day Syria, the Levant and the upper reaches of the fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers since antiquity. The majority of the people inhabiting this region were semi-nomadic pastoralists, and wool-pile carpets must have been part of their daily furnishings. Three thousand years ago the great cities of ancient Meso pot - amia had stone carpets, which perhaps ref lect the patterns on pile carpets that no longer survive. Five centuries later, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates and much of present-day Syria was ruled by the Persians. Their great empire was then conquered by the Greeks and later by the Romans, whose villas had mosaic f loors that were probably covered with carpets in winter. Two thousand years ago, Syria was an important section of the ancient Silk Road that linked China to Greece and Rome. Knotted-pile carpets with Greek mosaic designs have been found in Central Asia, and Chinese woven silks have been discovered in Syria, demonstrating that textiles travelled across the entire breadth of Asia, enabling new designs and ornaments from distant lands to be copied along the way. It is against this background that we should consider the origin of carpet designs in this region, some of which may derive from or ref lect the patterns of f loor tiles and woven silks. In the 7th century Syria, Iran and much of Central Asia was conquered by the Arabs, whose spiritual inf luence and knowledge of geometry continues to inf luence design to this day. The Mongol invasion in the 13th century carried with it Chinese and Central Asian patterns that are occasionally seen in Syrian carpet design. Our interest here lies in Syrian carpet design from the 15th to 17th centuries, and in particular the early part of that period, under Egyptian rule. In 1250, the Mamluks defeated the Ayyubid Empire in Egypt, and in 1260 advanced along the East Mediter - ran ean coast to defeat the Mongol armies at Ayn Jalut, extending the Mamluk Sultanate to include Syria and southern Anatolia. They ruled this region for some 250 years until they were defeated by the Ottoman Turks in 1516. It was the Mamluk style that most powerfully inf luenced carpet making in Syria, and their inf luence, in particular in colouration, continued through the 17th century. So-called Damascus carpets have a distinctive handle, weav - ing technique and colouration. The wool is generally Z-spun, while carpets made in Cairo tend to use S-spun wool. The pile is generally quite hairy, perhaps made of goats wool, and unlike Cairene carpets rarely has much sheen. The knot is for the most part asymmetric, in common with rugs from Cairo, central and eastern Iran, India and China. By contrast, Anatolian carpets tend to be symmetrically-knotted (this technique spreads beyond the MUSEUM COLLECTIONS borders of present-day Turkey into the Caucasus and northwest Persia). The warps are generally ivory wool and are often quite hairy, again perhaps from goats. The 2-ply wefts, of similar wool, are generally dyed red. There are two weft shoots between each row of knots, the second pulled very tight so that the upper warp almost almost covers the one beneath, producing a heavily depressed foundation weave and a firm handle. Very few Damascus carpets survive in good condition most are damaged and many exist simply as fragments. Although they appear to be quite thick and sturdy, the method of construction makes them quite fragile. Fragmentation may be due to the fact that with their stiff handle they break when folded. In most examples as much as 10cm, sometimes more, is missing from the ends. This may be due to the fact that the original narrow kilim at each end was not adequately secured, so that the rows of knots simply fell away. Their predominant red, blue and green palette is very much in the taste of Mamluk carpets from Egypt, although on Syrian carpets the red dyes are almost always madder, in common with Anatolian rugs. Thus in their colours and knotting Syrian carpets resemble those of Egyptian, in their spinning and dyeing they resemble Anatolian carpets, and in their patterns, they show inf luences from Anatolian, Egyptian and Iranian carpets. It is not known whether the sixty Damascene carpets received in 1520 by Cardinal Wolsey in exchange for allowing wine to be traded in England were actually from Damascus, nor do we know what they looked like. 101 It is certain, however, that by the 16th 82 HALI ISSUE 157 15 The Wher East Mediterranean com part ment rug, Damascus, 16th century. 1.30 x 1.75m (4'3" x 5'9"). MIAQ, no.CA44 century, Syrian or Damascus rugs had arrived in Europe. 102 At least one is depicted in a European tapestry from that time. 103 John Mills has shown that the Damascus compart ment design is first seen in an Italian painting before 1581, and lists seven further occurrences in Italian, English and Dutch paintings up to the third quarter of the 17th century. 104 Onno Ydema records 23 compartment carpets in 17th century Netherlandish paintings. 105 It may perhaps be assumed that not all such rugs were new when they were depicted. A number of Syrian carpet patterns are represented by just one or two surviving examples, and there are two larger design groups. The so-called para-Mamluk carpets and the chessboard or compartment rugs. The para-Mamluk carpets are the oldest surviving examples attributable to the northern part of the Mamluk Empire, dating from the 14th to the early 16th century. The term was coined by Charles Grant Ellis and groups together at least fourteen carpets and fragments with a number of common features. 106 Most have similar compositions, colouration and minor ornaments, but there is some technical variation: some are asymmetrically knotted, some symmetric, and others a combination). The oldest is the so-called Domes and Squinches rug in the Vakf lar Museum, Istanbul, which has been labelled as early as the 13th century, although it is more likely to have been made in the 14th. 107 It was found in the Great Mosque in Divrii along with another para-Mamluk with a simpler design, possibly from the 15th century. Both were probably made in east or southeast Anatolia, then part of the Mamluk Empire. Twelve other para- Mamluk rugs survive: three complete, some small fragments, some larger carpets and a unique prayer rug. These can be dated to the late 15th and early 16th century, as examples with related patterns are depicted in at least a dozen European paintings. 108 It has been suggested that these rugs, together with others from Spain, western Anatolia, Syria, Iran and India, form part of an international carpet style that continued through the 14th to the 16th century. 109 There is continuing debate concerning the source of the para- Mamluks: some writers have attributed them to eastern Anatolia, others to Tabriz in northwest Iran. However, the limited avail - able evidence suggests that at least some were made in present- day Syria or southeastern Anatolia, as they form a continuum with the vast majority of later rugs attributed to that area. Jon Thompson has suggested that the para-Mamluks, and the later compartment carpets, might belong to the Turkmen tradition. 110 However, while some of their border designs do relate to those depicted in Iranian paintings of the Turkmen period, neither the field patterns nor the palette fit comfortably into Turkmen art, appearing closer to the Mamluk style, whether from Egypt or southeastern Anatolia. 111 The most common design on Damascus carpets is the above- mentioned compartment pattern, many elements of which can be seen in para-Mamluk rugs. The field is covered with a grid of compartments formed on a red ground by four corner triangles, leaving an octagon within centred on an interlaced star with eight radial pairs of cypresses, an ornament shared with Mamluk rugs from Cairo. Secondary banded compartments are formed by vertical and horizontal cypress pairs, with a quar tered diamond formed by the four adjacent triangles at the centre. In the full version of this complex interlocking design, two other substrate patterns emerge: the diagonal pairs of cypresses form a diagonal lattice, while the ends of the cypresses are drawn so as to create an impression of rows of circles within the compartments. 112 These compartment rugs tend to come in three sizes: large carpets, smaller and small rugs. It is mostly the small rugs that have survived, and one was acquired by the MIAQ in 1998 15. The field depicts almost six complete hexagonal compartments. These abut vertically, but conjoining the hexagons diagonally are large blue diamonds divided through the centre, so that in part they can be seen as quartered triangles, and the compart - MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 83 ment or tile is in fact a large square where the triangles form the corner pieces. In the centre of each compartment is the Damas - cus star and radiating from this are cypress-like forms. All these patterns can be found on the earlier para-Mamluk carpets. A number of border patterns are known for these rugs, of which the one seen in the MIAQ rug is the most common. Four leaves extend from large lobed medallions, with small cartouches between. In Mamluk carpets the cartouche is generally consid- erably larger than the lobed medallion. The rug has much of its original pile and remarkably fresh colours. As with so many Damascus rugs, parts of the end borders have been lost and have been replaced. Undoubtedly the most beautiful cartouche border known on a Damascus carpet can be seen on a spectacular fragment in the MIAQ 14, 16. Sadly, nothing of the field survives. Much of the pat terning is on two levels, with elegantly drawn leaves and tiny interlaces. A complex design is used for the minor borders, demonstrating that it came from a very refined workshop. The corners are well resolved and a small part of the cartouche from the upper border remains. This tantalising fragment is from the very best Damascus carpet known. A deeper understanding of Syrian carpet design can be gained from the patterns of the twelve known examples that have neither para-Mamluk nor compartment designs, at least two of which might have been made in southeast Anatolia. 113 The largest (some 7.70m long) and most spectacular are two almost identi cal med allion carpets in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art (TIEM) in Istanbul. These have two onion-shaped medallions with pen dants in dark blue with rumi split-leaves that form a diamond-shaped inner medallion. Second ary round medallions along the sides of the field are only partially visible, as they are cut off by the border. The medallion, reminiscent of Ushak carpets, more likely draws its inspiration from Iranian patterns and Ottoman book covers. The field is surrounded by a cartouche and medallion border, like so many Mamluk carpets, but with a very different pattern. Both carpets, although almost complete, are composed of many reassembled fragments. A beautiful early Damascus carpet in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, in outstanding condition, has a field entirely cov - ered with cloudbands, a pattern that originated in China and reached Syria via Iran. In Istanbul there is a very small single- niche fragment from a multiple-niche saf prayer carpet, another part of which is in the Wher Collection. Two fragments in the Keir Collection, acquired from Salvadori in Florence, add to the picture of Damascus carpet design. One has small palmettes cov ering the field in the Iranian manner. The other has a field of lobed medallions altering with Damascus-style stars; in the centre is a large eight-pointed star medallion. The field is sur - rounded by a border of cartouches with cloudbands and eight- lobed medallions. A fragment from a large carpet with a field of scrolling vines and large palmettes in the Iranian manner and a border some - what resembling the wavy lines and balls of the intamani design was given in 1991 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Marshall & Marilyn R. Wolf Foundation. Four other Damascus carpets were found in the Great Mosque at Dirvii, along with the two para-Mamluks. Two of these are probably from Syria and the other two are attributed to southeast Anatolia when it was still part of the Mamluk Empire. One of the Syrian rugs has diagonal rows of diamond-shaped medallions separated by a diamond-shaped lattice composed of small leaves, with a small tree-like form in each medallion. The other has rows of palm - ettes alternating with cloudbands. One of the southeast Anatolian rugs has an eight-pointed star medallion with four wheel-like octagons. The other has a large leaf pattern that forms a diagonal lattice with small rosettes in each compartment. If we compare the few rugs from Egypt and the East Mediter - ranean region currently in collections in Berlin, London, New York and in particular The Textile Museum in Washington DC, the MIAQ has some way to go to build a truly exciting and inter - esting collection in this area. An earlier Mamluk carpet, a Cairene Ottoman rug woven on silk, a para-Mamluk, a large compart - ment carpet or indeed a Damascus with an unusual design would all be significant additions. Some examples still survive in private collections, although great items rarely come onto the market, and to find rugs with original pile, pristine colours and excellent drawing is an even greater challenge. However, it is to be hoped that this small but very good group of rugs from this region will continue to be expanded to create something really special in the Muslim world. 16 The Muse East Med iterranean car - touche-border car pet (border section), Damascus, Syria, 15th or 16th century. 0.15 x 0.46m (6" x 1'6"). MIAQ, no.TE14 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 84 HALI ISSUE 157 1 George Hewitt Myers, founder of the Textile Museum, Washington DC, was one of several collectors and connois - seurs in the rst half of the 20th century who greatly admired Spanish and East Medi ter ranean carpets. He acquired 22 Spanish carpets from the classical period as well as 31 East Mediterranean carpets (16 Mamluk-style Egyptian rugs, ten Otto - man-style Egyptian rugs and ve Damas - cus rugs), published in two separate mon o - graphs (Textile Museum 1953, 1957). 2 Those with important large collections have included: Count Johannes von Wel - czeck, George Hewitt Meyers, Don Jos de Weissberger, Charles Deering, Wendy and Emery Reves. Other collectors have had a number of examples, including: Archer Milton Huntington, John D. McIl henny, Joseph Lees Williams, George Blumenthal, the Marquis de Valverde, James F. Ballard, John Emery, Baron & Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Mar quesa de Bermejillo del Rey, Sidney A. Charlat, Marino & Clara DallOglio and Frederick Pratt. 3 To name but a few: Vitall Benguiat and Mayorcas in New York; Bhler, Munich; Adolfo Loewi, Venice; Stefano Bardini, Florence; Michel Campana and Elio Cittone in Milan; Lionel Harris, Jekylls and C. John in London; and Sammy Tarica, Yves Mikael - off, Masson, Benadava and Catan in Paris. Interestingly, most of the examples were acquired by dealers of Spanish Sephardic origins and few by Armenian dealers. 4 These illustrations of classical Spanish knotted-pile carpets have been taken from museum inventories and archives, the carpet literature, sale catalogues and examples that have come to the market. I am sure that these records are by no means complete and it is possible that as many as 150 further items are not recor - ded, but it is unlikely that any important early example would not have been pub lished and come to my attention. The major museums with Spanish carpets are in Madrid, Berlin, London, New York, Miami, Dallas and Washington, with indi - vidual notable examples in Paris, St Louis, Cleveland and Detroit. Over the past thirty years, 29 examples have passed through my studio in London. 5The latter coming from Arraiolos, where workshops were certainly started in the 16th century; many of the oldest exam - ples copy Safavid Iranian carpets, others copy Anatolian rugs and Arraiolos carpets. 6 Examples can be found in: Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo; Textile Museum, Wash - ington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Museum, Stockholm; Rhss Museum, Gothenburg; Keir Col lec - tion, Ham; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (MIAQ), Benaki Museum, Athens. 7 E.g., Crouching lion rug. Incomplete, possibly originally 178 x 312cm. 1st to 3rd century AD. Xinjiang Institute of Arch - ae ology, Urumqi, no.M15:1. Excavated at Yingpan, tomb no.15. Published: Knig 1999, p.87; Li 2002, pp.7, 11 (detail and reconstruction, with technical descrip tion); Li 2006, pp.2545, gs.198, 199 (with dia gram of structure showing single warp offset knotting). 8 Serjeant 1972, p.175 (referring to Al-Himyari 1938, p.112, trans., p.138): They used to make ne and valuable carpets (busut) at Murcia. The people of Murcia have unequalled skill in manufac- turing and decorating these carpets. 9 (1) Sages and Virtues carpet. Mid-12th century. 64 x 182cm, section. Halber stadt Cathedral Treasury. Published: Wilckens 1992, pp.103, 105, gs.10, 12. (2) Border fragment with palmettes. 12th century. 20 x 400cm. Halberstadt Cath - edral Treasury. Published: Wilckens 1992, pp.103, 105, g.13. (3) Wedding of Mercury and Philologia carpet. (ae) Five fragments (originally 590 x 740cm). 11861203. Quedlinburg Cathedral Treasury. Published: Kurth 1926, I, pp.5367, g.26,II, pls.1221, 22b; Nickel 1976; Wilckens 1992. (f) One frag - ment. Whereabouts unknown. Formerly: Welczek Collection, Austria (to 1945). Pub lished: Kurth 1926, II, pl.21a; Wilc k ens 1992, p.100 (cited). 10 Two paintings depicting early Spanish carpets that have been cut and reduced in size: (1) Presentation in the Temple. Francisco Henriques, ca. 15081511. Oil on wood, 88 x 15cm. Museu de Alpiara, Alpiara. From the altarpiece of the main chapel of the church in the Convento de So Francisco, vora. Published: Lisbon 2007, p.59. Carpet with octagons and lozenge pattern. (2) Mass of Saint Greg - ory. Francisco Henriques, c. 15081511. Oil on wood, 88 x 121.5cm. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. From the altarpiece of the main chapel of the church in the Convento de So Francisco, vora. Published: Lisbon 2007, p.60; Mills 2007, p.134, g.2. Carpet with design of stars in octagons and lozenges, Kuc border. 11 May Beattie (1986, p.273), in her study of the Admiral car pets, pointed out that it is impossible to estimate the number of surviving exam ples: Without considering border frag ments, two or more pieces may be from a single rug, and conversely, the skilful joining and patching of carpets carried out in Spanish convents points to the pos sibility of several parts of different rugs being combined into what, in a photograph, appears to be a complete carpet. 12 I have yet to nd a document to con r m this. Eleanor of Castile was mar ried in October 1254 at the age of ten to King Edward I of England, then fteen, at Las Huelgas . 13 By Matteo di Giovanetti da Viterbo. It is not certain that the Popes carpets are Spanish it is possible that they were made in France in the Spanish style. For more than 300 years from the early 13th century in Paris, two separate guilds of carpet-makers existed side by side, the Tapiciers sarrazinois and the Tapiciers nostres. As the name implies, the Sara - cenic carpet weavers were engaged in manufacturing carpets based upon East - ern originals, while the other guild pro - duced carpets in a local style. [Pinner] 1978, taken from Boileau 1897. 14 King 1986, pp.1317. 15 Madrid 1933. 16 It is known from paintings and doc - uments that both Spanish and oriental carpets were used in European churches and synagogues from the Middle Ages onwards; some were made specically for altars or as ark curtains, probably ordered by wealthy patrons. The Von Bode synagogue rug. 14th century. 95 x 385cm. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.I.27, acquired 1906. Formerly: Repor - tedly from a church in the Tyrol district, 1880s; art market, Munich, 1884; Wilhelm Bode. Published: Bode, 1892, p.49 (cited); Bode 1901, p.115, g.79 (drawing); Sarre 1907; Thomson 1910, pl.IIc; Kendrick and Tattersall 1922, vol.II, pl.77A (drawing); Neugebauer and Orendi 1923, p.8, g.2 (drawing); Faraday 1927(1), p.9, g.6 (detail); Faraday 1929, 1990, p.35, g.5 (detail); Sarre, 1930 (detail); Erdmann 1970, p.143, g.181 (detail); Sherrill 1974, p.532, g.1 (detail); Curatola 1981, no.141; London 1983, pp.33, 5051, no.3; Wear - den 1985, p.205, g.a; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.2901, pl.V (detail, with struc - ture analysis); Day 1989, p.316, g.313; Berlin 1995, pp.23, 28, no.8; Sherrill 1996, p.31, pl.20; Felton 1997, pl.1; Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 1998, p.239, g.1. 17 Pinner 1986, p.295. 18 The eld and border patterns on one carpet were clealry changed as the rug was being made. The Myers palmettes in interlaced lattice carpet. Mid- to second half 15th century. 184 x 219cm, incom p - lete in length. Textile Museum, Wash ing - ton DC, no.R44.4.2 (R84.10). Formerly: George Hewitt Myers Collection, acquired 1927. Published: American Art Associa - tion, New York, 30 April 1927, lot 1040, p.335; Textile Museum 1953, p.11, pls.IX XI (with structure analysis); Weeks and Tre ganowan 1969, p.13, top (detail); Wash - ington DC 1972, no.35 (cited); Mackie 1977, p.25, g.13; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3945, pl.LVII (with structure analysis); Sherrill 1996, p 41, pl.36; Isaacson 1998, p.79, g.2; Bier 2003(1), p.42, g.3; Wash - ington DC 2003, pp.28, 284, g.26 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Washing ton DC 1972; Washington DC 2003, Carpets of Andalusia. Blue ground; lower part has a different design, similar to borders of armorial carpets. 19 After the Popes fresco in Avignon, dating from the rst half of the 14th cen tury, a number of other carpets with small lattice eld designs are depicted in paint ings from the early 16th century (see note 10 above, and Lisbon 2007). 20 Seven have identiable coats-of-arms; three of these may be complete, and the others are shortened in length. Two short ened carpets have unidentied blazons. Five shortened carpets, mostly still with their borders, are without blazons. Frag ments survive from at least thirteen other such carpets. 21 Beattie 1986. 22 May 1945; Beattie 1986. 23 One example depicts a wild boar, not an appropriate subject for an Islamic rug. It may well be that the Admiral carpets were woven by Muslim weavers to patterns supplied by their clients. 24 The so-called Kuc border also res - embles the elem on Salor Turkmen door rugs or ensi. These unusual patterns were surely part of a tradition that drew upon both local textile designs and impor ted carpets and textiles for inspiration. 25 Pinner 1986 lists some forty docu - ments between 15271622 that refer to Turkish carpets in Spanish inventories, some with Kuc borders with interlace. 26 Two Spanish carpets with the inter - laced medallion small-pattern Holbein design: (1) The Boston interlaced medal - lion carpet. 106 x 462cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no.39.614. Published: Erdmann 1960, g.175 (detail); Schlosser 1963, p.174, g.100 (detail); Erdmann 1970, p.210, g.271; Washington DC 1972, no.28 (cited); Sherrill 1974, p.541, pl.III; Mackie 1979, p.92, g.20; Denny 1978, p.157, g.1; Denny 1982, p.332, g.5 (detail); London 1983, pp.36, 53, no.7; Ellis 1986, p.172, g.10; Day 1989, p.320, g.316; HALI 52, 1990, p.131 (detail); Gantzhorn 1991, p.233, g.344; Sherrill 1996, p.36, pl.26; HALI 99, 1998, p.84 (detail). Exhibited: Washington DC 1972; London 1983; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Ten Great Carpets, 1977; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Oriental Carpets and Kilims, 23 July 1990 to early January 1991; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Ambassadors from the East: Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Fine Arts, Bos - ton, 29 Sept ember 1998 to 24 January 1999. (2) The Loewi inter laced medallion carpet. 155 x 290cm. Tex tile Museum, Washington DC, no.R44.3.1 (R84.6), acquired 1926. Formerly: Adolfo Loewi Collection, Venice; George Hewitt Myers Collection. Published: Textile Mus eum 1953, p.27, pls XXIVXXV (with struc ture analysis); Mackie 1979, p.93, g.22; Mackie and Thompson 1980, p.21, g.8 (detail); Bier 2003(1), p.42, g.2 (detail); NOTES MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 85 Washington DC 2003, pp.22, 283 (with structure analysis); Bier 2004, p.13. 27 The Welczeck endless knot design carpet. Late 15th or early 16th century. Formerly: Count Welczeck Collection. (a) 75 x 250cm, section of eld and bor der. Wher Collection. Formerly: The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Gantzhorn 1991, p.222, g.334; Enderlein 1993, p.91, g.12; HALI 108, 2000, p.75 (detail); Milan 1999, p.185, no.166 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Milan 1999. (b) 62 x 250cm, section of eld and border. Chris Alexander Collection, Berkeley. Formerly: The Textile Gallery, London; Wher Collec t - ion. Published: Lefevre, London, 18 June 1982, lot 24; HALI 4/3, 1982, p.52; Gantz - horn 1991, p.222, g.334; Alexander Col - lection 1993, pp.11415; Bennett 1994, p.89, g.7); Milan 1999, p.185, no.166 (cited). (c) 186 x 297cm, section of eld and border. Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, no.12975/3889. Pub - lished: Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Neuerwerbungen, 19561974, pl.53; Hubel 1971, p.295, g.154 (detail, with structure analysis); Milan 1999, p.185, no.166 (cited). (d) Incomplete, bot tom half, reduced in width? Whereabouts unknown. Published: Torres 1942, g.20; Gamal 1963; Alexander Collection 1993, pp.11419 (Although current dating has tended to ascribe this carpet a 15th cen tury date, I am certain in my own mind that this dating is not correctThis car pet was probably woven in the 10th or 11th century and certainly no later than the 12th [sic].) John Mills has mentioned in conversation the relationship of the eld design of this carpet to certain ceiling designs in southern Spain. 28 Two Spanish carpets with rows of small octagons: (1) The Lionel Harris thirty octagons carpet. 214 x 460cm. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, no.T.104-1912. Formerly: Reportedly from a convent in Spain; Lionel Harris & Co., London. Published: Victoria and Albert Museum 1915, no.345, pl.XXXIX (detail); Ral [1925], pl.XXI (detail); Ken d - rick and Tattersall 1922, vol.II, pl.77B (detail); Ferr andis Torres 1942, g.19; Gamal 1963; Sherrill 1974, p.540, g.9; Mackie 1979, p.93, g.25; Pagnano 1983, pl 235; Wea rden 1985, p.207, g.b; Sn - chez Ferrer 1986, pp.3545, pl.XXXVII (with structure analysis); Gantzhorn 1991, p.232, g.343; Bennett 2004, p.268. (2) The Welczeck small octagons carpet. 38 x 70cm, frag ment. Whereabouts unknown. Formely: Count Welczeck Collection. Published: Madrid 1933, p.108, no.13, pl.X (detail). Exhibited: Madrid 1933. 29 E.g., Stories from the Life of St Ursula. Vittore Carpaccio (Venice 1472 Capodis - tria 1526), (149096), tempera on canvas. Gallerie dellAccademia, Venice. 30 Annunciation with Saint Emidius. Carlo Crivelli (Venice about 1430/5 about 1494), 1486. Egg tempera and oil on canvas transferred from wood, 207 x 146.7cm. National Gallery, London, no.NG739. 31 Pentecost. Anonymous [possibly Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese Royal painter, died 1565], ca. 1530. Oil on wood, 132.5 x 165cm. Ermida de Nossa Senhora dos Remdios, Lisbon. Published: Lisbon 2007, p.62, no 6. The carpet has at least two columns and four rows; at each end is an extra panel with bird-like creatures separated by Kuc-style uprights. 32 The Convent of Santa Ursula large octagon carpet. (a) Lower part, 103 x 250cm, three octagons. MIAQ, no.CA24. Formerly: Reportedly from the Convent of Santa Ursula, Guadalajara; Adolfo Loewi Collection, Venice, no.7.419b; Benedava, Paris; Wher Collection. Published: Ferr - andis Torres 1942, g.15; Gamal 1963; Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1974; Ellis 1986, p.168, g.6. (b) Upper part, 97 x 390cm, four octagons. Textile Museum, Washing - ton DC, no.R44.2.2 (R84.12), acquired 1931. Formerly: Reportedly from the Convent of Santa Ursula, Guadalajara; Adolfo Loewi Collection, Venice; George Hewitt Myers Collection, Washington DC. Published: Textile Museum 1953, p.17, pls. XVIXVII (with structure analy sis); Bunt 1966, g.46; Weeks and Tre gan - owan 1969, p.19, right (detail); Wash - ington DC 1972, no.30 (cited); Sherrill 1974, p.535, g.5; Mackie 1977, p 26, g.15; Mackie 1979, p.91, g.12; Collins 1988, p.42; Gantzhorn 1991, p.229, g.340; Sherrill 1996, p 37, pl.28; Wash - ington DC 2003, pp.25, 283, g 23 (with structure analysis); Bier 2004, pp.1213. Exhibited: Washington DC 1972; Wash - ington DC, 2003, Carpets of Andalusia. 33 Although the Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto depicted carpets of this type only twice in approximately 250 known works both fairly late in his career, in 1542 and 1547 his name has become irrevocably linked with them: Sant Antonio Elemo - sin ario Giving Alms, 1542, church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (Mills 1981, p.283, no.11); Family Portrait Group, 1547, National Gallery, London (Mills 1981, pp.2801, no.12). The earliest veriable depiction in a European painting of an Anatolian arabesque rug is in fact in a painting by the Venetian artist Sebastiano del Piombo (ca. 1486, Venice 1547, Rome), dated 1516, in the National Gal - lery, Washington DC: Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary and Two Geog raph - ers (Mills 1981, p.281, no.1). 34 The Qatar arabesque carpet. 16th century. 283 x 549cm. MIAQ, no.TE26. Formerly: Private collection, Switzerland. Published: Christies, London, 14 October 1999, lot 100; HALI 106, 1999, p.132; HALI 108, 2000, p.131 (detail). 35 Some Spanish carnation carpets: (1) The Madrid carnation carpet. (a) 128 x 199cm. Museo del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid. Published: Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3567, pl.XXXVIII (with structure analysis). (b) 50 x 65cm, section. Whereabouts unknown. Formerly: Livinio Stuyck Collection, Madrid. Published: Madrid 1933, p.107, no.9, pl.VIII (detail). Exhibited: Madrid 1933. (2) The Valverde carnation carpet. 52 x 62cm, section. Museo del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid. Formerly: Marquis de Valverde Collection. Published: Faraday 1927(1), p.12, g.12 (detail); Faraday 1929/1990, p.37, g.11 (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp 3601, pl.XL (detail, with structure analysis). (3) The Ballard carna tion carpet. 140 x 275cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no.22.100.124. Formerly: James F. Ballard Collection. Pub lished: New York 1923, no.127; Met ro politan Museum of Art 1973, pp.259, 263, no.155, g.224 (with structure analy sis). Exhibited: New York 1923. (4) The Krauth carnation carpet. 94 x 132cm, section. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.KGM 81.382. For - merly: Consul Krauth, Krefeld, in 1888; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. Published: Museum of Islamic Art 1988, pp.122 and 283, no.144 (with struc ture analysis). (5) The Toledo carnation car pet. Private col - lection, New York. For merly: Said to be from a convent chapel, Toledo; Lenygon & Co., London; Vojtech Blau, New York; The Textile Gallery, London. (a) 270 x 288cm, bottom half. Published: Thomson 1910, p.109 (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3645, pl.XLII (detail, with structure ana - lysis); Lefevre, London, 2 April 1976, lot 7 (with detail on front cover); Sothebys, New York, 7 April 1992, lot 74 (with struc - ture analysis). (b) 298 x 286cm, top half. Published: Lefevre, Lon don, 2 April 1976, lot 7 (with detail on front cover); Soth ebys, New York, 13 April 1995, lot 139 (with structure analysis). (6) The Emery carnation carpet. 287 x 620cm. Cincinnati Museum of Art, no.1966.638. Formerly: John Emery Collection. Pub lished: Adams 1971, p.273 (detail); Cin cin nati Art Museum Bulletin, vol.9, nos.12, p.55, June 1971; The Art Quarterly, vol.XXIX, nos 34, p.298, 1966; Lefevre, London, 2 April 1976, lot 7 (cited); Master pieces from the Cin cin nati Art Museum, 1984, p.42. Almost the pair to the Toledo carpet. (7) The Spier carnation carpet. 56 x 48cm, section. Vic toria & Albert Museum, London, no.T.335-1920, gift of J. Spier. Published: Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3623, pl.XLI (with struct ure analysis); Day 1989, p.324, g.320. 36 Some Spanish carpets with the Eur - op ean carnation pattern: (1) The Marquesa de Bermejillo del Rey carnation carpet. 435 x 220cm. Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, no.19.222. Formerly: Marquesa de Bermejillo del Rey. Published: Madrid 1933, p.114, no.47, pl.XXXVIII (det - ail); Museo Nacional de Artes Decora tivas 2002, pp.100101, pl.27. Exhibited: Madrid 1933. (2) The Welczeck carnation carpet. 153 x 28cm. Whereabouts unknown. For merly: Count de Welczeck Collection. Pub lished: Madrid 1933, p.109, no.18, pl.XIII (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3667, pl.XLIII (detail, with structure analysis). Exhibited: Madrid 1933. (3) The Victoria & Albert Museum carnation carpet. 150 x 292cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.T.604-1893. Published: Martin 1908, p.137, g.350 (detail). (4) The Wel c zeck medallion and carnation carpet. 105 x 182cm. Whereabouts unknown. For merly: Count de Welczeck Collection. Published: Madrid 1933, p.109, no.17, pl.XII. Exhibited: Madrid 1933. 37 Two Spanish carpets with a cloud design from Chinese Mongol silks: (1) The Dum barton Oaks clouds carpet. 152 x 373cm. Textile Museum, Washing - ton DC, no.1976.10.3. Formerly: Dum bar - ton Oaks Collec t ion. Published: Wash ing - ton DC 1972, no.37 (cited); Mackie 1977, p.28, 31, g.17 (with structure analysis); HALI 1/2, 1978, p.166 (detail); Mackie 1979, p.94, g.29; New York 1992, pp.3445, no.102; Sherrill 1996, p.34, pl.23 (detail); Bier 1996(1), p.69, g.32; Bier 2003(1), p.43, g.6 (detail); Wash ington DC 2003, pp.27, 283, g.25 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Wash ington DC 1972; Washing ton DC 2003. (2) The Madrid clouds carpet. Section. Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Mad rid, no.1.742. Published: Museo Nac ional de Artes Decorativas 2002, p.96, pl.24. Two Turkish rugs with a cloud pattern from Chinese Mongol silks: (1) The Ala - eddin Mongol silk pattern rug. Central Anatolia, 14th century. 121 x 240cm. Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, no.688. Formerly: Alaeddin Mosque, Konya. Published: Aslanapa 1961, pl.V (detail); Erdmann 1970, p.96, g.26; Aslanapa 1971, pl.XIV; Mackie 1977, g.18; Yetkin 1981, pl.6 (detail); [Anon] 1988, pattern code 0108; Aslan apa 1988, p.21, pl.7; Day 1989, p.45, top left; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts 1993, p.206, pl.115 (detail); ler et al. 1996, p.7, pl.4. (2) The Bardini Mongol silk pattern rug. Ushak, late 15th century. Possibly origin ally 75 x 350cm. (a) 57.5 x 156cm, section. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.1885. 985. Formerly: Wilhelm Bode; Kunst ge wer bemuseum, Berlin. Published: Ender lein 1979, g.1; Florence 1999, p.74 (cited); Beselin 2005, p.66, pl.50 (with structure analysis). (b) 61 x 165cm, section. Bardini Museum, Flor ence. Pub lished: Florence 1999, pp.745, no.22. Two Mongol cloud pattern silks, 13th14th cen t ury: (1) Metro politan Museum of Art, NewYork, no.46. 156.20. Published: Mac - kie 1977, p.1532, g.19. Mackie refers to others published by Agnes Geijer (1963, p.83, gs.1, 2). (2) State Her mitage Mus - MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 86 HALI ISSUE 157 eum, St Peters burg, no.LT-449. Discov - ered by V.G. Bock at Al-Azam, Egypt. Pub - lished: Edinburgh 2006, pp.967, no.96. 38 Some Spanish carpets with rows of lobed medallions: (1) The Costikyan-Pope lobed-medallion carpet. 81 x 72cm, section of central eld and borders. Textile Mus - eum, Washington DC, no.R84.3, acquired 1915. Formerly: Kent Costikyan and A.U. Pope, New York; George Hewitt Myers Col lection, Washington DC. Published: Tex tile Museum 1953, p.23, pl.XXI (with struc ture analysis); Weeks and Tregan owan 1969, p.14, top (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3801, pl.L (with structure ana - ly sis); Bier 1992, p.62, g.12; Washington DC 2003, pp.21, 283, g.19 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Washington DC 2003, Carpets of Andalusia. (2) The Loewi lobed- medallion carpet. 86 x 190cm, section. Tex t - ile Museum, Washington DC, no.R44.2.3 (R84.14), acquired 1931. Formerly: Adolfo Loewi Collection, Venice; George Hewitt Myers Collection, Washington DC. Pub - lished: Textile Museum 1953, p.21, pl.XX (with structure analysis); Mackie 1979, p.90, g.11; Bier 1992, p.63, g.13; Bier 1996(1), p.69, g.30; Bier 2003(1), p 42, g.1; Wash ington DC 2003, pp.20, 283, g.18 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Washington DC, 2003, Carpets of Anda - lusia. (3) The Madrid lobed-medallion carpet. (a) 28 x 70cm, section of eld and border. Insti tuto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid. Published: Gamal 1963; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3845, pl.LII (detail, with struc ture analysis). (b) 87 x 126cm, incom p lete. Whereabouts unknown. Formerly: Count Welczeck Collection. Published: Madrid 1933, p.107, no.11, pl.IX. Exhibited: Madrid 1933. A Spanish carpet with off set rows of lobed medallions: The Madrid offset lobed medallion carpet. (a) 22.5 x 80cm, section of eld and border. Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid. Pub lished: Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3823, pl.LI (detail, with structure analysis). (b) 30 x 60cm, section of bor der and eld. Museo Arquelgico Nacional, Madrid. Pub lished: Madrid 1933, p.108, no.12, pl.IX. Exhib - ited: Madrid 1933. (c) Section of eld and border. Where abouts unknown. Published: Faraday 1929, p.43, g.25, top; Faraday 1990, p.49, g.25, 20 x 25cm, 19 x 15cm, 20 x 9cm. Private collection, Los Angeles. Formerly: Alcala Subastas, Madrid; The Textile Gallery, London. 39 Some Spanish carpets with palmettes in an interlaced lattice: (1) The Charleston interlaced lattice carpet. 75 x 142cm, frag mentary, incomplete in length. Wher Collection. Formerly: Charleston Mus eum, Charleston; The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Sothebys, New York, 24 Sept ember 1991, lot 1 (with structure analy sis); HALI 60, 1991, p.154. (2) The Ben guiat interlaced lattice carpet. 165 x 234cm. Textile Museum, Washing - ton DC, no.R44.2.1 (R84.8). Formerly: Vital Ben guiat Collection, George Hewitt Myers Collection, Washington DC, 1920. Pub lished: Amercian Art Association 1920, no.317; Textile Museum 1953, p.19, pls.XVIIIXIX (with structure analysis); Weeks and Treganowan 1969, p.17; Washington DC 1972, no.31; Mackie 1979, p.90, g.9; London 1983, pp.36, 52, no.5; Wearden 1985, p.208, g.a; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition; Ellis 1985, p.63, g.4; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3889, pl.LIV (with structure analysis); Collins 1988, p.44; Faraday 1990, p 42, pl.VI (detail); Sherrill 1996, pp.28, 40, pl.34; Bier 1996(1), p.69, g.31; Bier 1996(2); HALI 92, 1997, p.102, g.11; Sherrill 1999, p.216, gs.1, 2 (detail); Washington DC 2003, pp.29, 284, g.27 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Wash - ington DC 1972; London 1983; Washing - ton DC, 2003, Carpets of Andalusia. (3) The Weissberger interlaced lattice carpet. 125 x 215cm. Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, no.3.407. For merly: Don Jos A. de Weissberger Col lection, Madrid, no.3. Published: Mad - rid 1933, p.108, no.14, pl.XI; Cam pana 1969, p.30, g.12 (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3867, pl.LIII (with structure analysis); Museo Nacional de Artes Dec orativas 1996, pp.367, no.1 (with struc ture analy sis); Museo Nacional de Artes Decora tivas 2002, pp.823. Exhibited: Madrid 1933. (4) The Charlat interlaced lattice carpet. 239 x 521cm. Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Collection, no.61.49. Formerly: Sidney A. Charlat Collection. Published: Faraday 1927(2), p.88, g 3 (detail); Fara - day 1929, p.38, g.13 (detail); Metropoli - tan Museum of Art 1958, g.13; Dimand 1964, g.13; Weeks and Treganowan 1969, p.13, bottom (detail); Metropolitan Mus - eum of Art 1973, pp.1601, 2623, no.153, g.222 (with structure analysis); Sherrill 1974, p.539, pl.II (detail); Pagnano 1983, pl.233; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3923, pl.LVI (with structure analysis); Faraday 1990, p.40, g.13 (detail). (5) The Pratt interlaced lattice carpet. 150 x 241cm. Brooklyn Museum, New York, no.43.24.6. Formerly: Mr & Mrs Frederick Pratt. Pub - lished: Bennett 1987, p.34, left; HALI 92, 1997, p.98, g.1. (6) The Victoria & Albert Museum interlaced lattice carpet. 162 x 228cm, reduced in length. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, no.T.131-1905. Pub - lished: Ral, [1925], pl.VII (detail); Kendrick and Tattersall 1922, vol.II, pl.79; Victoria and Albert Museum 1924, p.25, pl.XIX (with structure analysis); Thomson 1925, p.232; Faraday 1929, p.38, g.15; Schlos - ser 1963, p.175, g.101; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3901, pl.LV (with struct ure ana - lysis); Faraday 1990, p.40, g.15. (7) The Kalebdjian interlaced lattice carpet. 152 x 254cm, reconstituted from pieces of the original. Muse Historique des Tissus, Lyons, no.27.658, acquired 1905. Form - erly: Kalebdjian, Paris. Published: Bennett 1987, p.32, g.XIX (with struct ure analy - sis); Day 1989, p.325, g.322; Faraday 1990, p.39, pl.V. (8) The Myers-Bernheimer interlaced lattice carpet. (a) 184 x 219cm, incomplete in length. Textile Museum, Washington DC, no.R44.4.2 (R84.10). Formerly: George Hewitt Myers Collect - ion, acquired 1927. Published: American Art Association, New York, 30 April 1927, lot 1040, p.335; Textile Museum 1953, p.11, pls.IXXI (with structure analysis); Weeks and Tre ganowan 1969, p.13, top (detail); Wash ington DC 1972, no.35 (cited); Mackie 1977, p.25, g.13; Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.3945, pl.LVII (with structure ana lysis); Sherrill 1996, p.41, pl.36; Isaac - son 1998, p.79, g.2; Bier 2003(1), p.42, g.3; Wash ington DC 2003, pp.28, 284, g.26 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Washing ton DC 1972; Washington DC, 2003, Car pets of Andalusia. Blue ground. Lower part has a different design, similar to bor ders of armorial carpets. (b) 104 x 108cm, section. Wher Collection. Form - erly: Bern heimer Collection, Munich, acq uired 1951; The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Bernheimer 1959, pl.121; Chris ties, Lon don, 14 February 1996, lot 75 (with struc t ure analysis); HALI 86, 1996, p.133; Milan 1999, p.192, no.165. Exhibited: Milan 1999. (9) The Perez inter - laced lattice carpet. Where abouts unknown. Formerly: Perez, Amster dam. Published: Faraday 1927(2), p.89, g.4; Bunt 1966, g 47. (10) The Welczeck interlaced lattice carpet 1. 157 x 90cm, section of eld and border. Where abouts unknown. Formerly: Count Welc zeck Collection. Published: Madrid 1933, pp.1089, no.16, pl.VII. Exhibited: Madrid 1933. (11) The McMullan interlaced lattice carpet. Section. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no.57.150.90. Formerly: Joseph V. McMullan Collection. Published: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973, p.258 (cited); Bennett 1987, p.33 (cited). (12) The Welczeck interlaced lattice carpet 2. 115 x 218cm. Whereabouts unknown. For merly: Count Welczeck Collection. Pub lished: Madrid 1933, p.108, no.15 (cited). Exhib - ited: Madrid 1933. 40 The Reves palmettes in ogival lattice silk carpet. 197 x 118cm. Wendy & Emery Reves Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, no.1985.R.87. Published: Philadelphia Mus eum of Art 1988, p.256 (cited). The Dallas museum has ten Spanish carpets acquired by the Reves from Tarica in Paris. 41 The Unger palmettes in diamond- shaped lattice silk carpet. 58 x 76cm, fragment. MIAQ, no.TE12. Formerly: Unger Collection, Mexico; The Textile Gallery, London; Wher Collection. Pub lished: Sothebys, London, 10 December 1992, lot 4. 42 The Sasson confronting lions brocade design carpet. 15th to 16th century. 226 x 442cm, incomplete in length. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, no.T.39-1896. Formerly: J. Sasson & Co., London. Published: Martin 1908, p.135, g.345 (detail); Thomson 1910, p.IIA (detail); Victoria and Albert Museum 1915/1920, no.336, pl.XXXVIII (detail); Ral [1925], pl.IX (detail); Kendrick and Tattersall 1922, vol.I, p.70 (cited); Faraday 1927(2), p.89, g.5 (detail); Faraday 1929, p.39, g.16 (detail); Victoria and Albert Museum 1931, no.336, pl.XLIV (detail); Snchez Ferrer 1986, pp.4189, pl.LXIX (detail, with structure analysis); Faraday 1990, p.41, g.16 (detail); Woolley 1995, p.72, g.7 (detail); Sherrill 1996, p.45, pl.41 (detail). 43 Three early Spanish carpets with wreaths: (1) The Paris wreaths in com - partments carpet. (a) 102 x 289cm, three complete compartments with end panels, reduced in size from a larger carpet. MIAQ, no.TE106. Formerly: Paris art market; New York art market. Published: Christies, Lon - don, 16 April 2007, lot 46; Ghereh, 42, 2007, p.79. (b) Approx. 100 x 300cm, three wreaths. Whereabouts unknown. Form - erly: Paris art market. (2) The Bhler wreaths in compartments carpet. 212 x 100cm, section with two complete wreaths. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.KGM 94.413. Formerly: Bhler, Munich; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. Published: Museum of Islamic Art 1988, pp.121, 280, no.140 (with structure anlaysis); Taylor 1990, p.105, g.11. (3) The Deering wreaths in compartments carpet. 198 x 457cm, ten complete and two partial wreaths. Villa Vizcaya, Dade County Art Museum, Miami, no.DC2014/ DR33. For - merly: James Deering Collect ion, Miami, bought at auction in New York, 7 January 1914. Published: Taylor 1990, p.104, g.8. 44 The Mikaeloff wreaths carpet. 16th century. (a) Central section, 140 x 131cm, four complete wreaths. MIAQ. Formerly: Galerie Yves Mikaeloff, Paris. Published: Christies, London, 16 October 1997, lot 101. (b) Central section with borders, 173 x 208cm, four wreaths. Whereabouts unknown. Published: Sothebys, New York, 5 December 1987, lot 55 (with structure analysis); HALI 38, 1988, p.92; Christies, London, 10 April 2008, lot 94. Formerly: New England art dealer, 1987; private collection, Texas. 45 Louisa Bellinger analysed the Textile Museum collection in 1953. Structure analysis can now be much more detailed. 46 Wall paintings are said to show that weaving with coloured wools to make covers and tapestries may well have been practised in one of the oldest urban settlements at atal Hyk in Anatolia, almost 9,000 years ago (Mellaart 1967; Marchal 1985; Mellaart et al. 1989). 47 Looped pile fragments discovered at Deir el-Bahri. See Petzel 1987. 48 The Fustat lion rug. 165 x 91cm. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. For merly: MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 87 reportedly excavated at Fustat (old Cairo) in the 1920s; private collection, Paris; Soustiel, Paris; The Textile Gallery and Bashir Mohammed, London. Published: HALI 32, 1986, p.6; Norris 1987, p.54; Wilkinson 1987, p.63. C-14 dated bet - ween the second half of the 7th and the end of the 9th century AD. 49 Examples survive in several major museum collections. The largest single group is in Sweden (Lamm 1937; Stock - holm 1985). The Benaki Museum in Athens has thirty fragments, many with knotted- pile but some in looped-pile tech nique (Theologou 2008). Other fragments: Mus - eum of Islamic Art, Cairo; Textile Museum, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Keir Collection, Ham; Lloyd Cotsen Collection, Los Angeles. 50 Thompson (2006, p.123), citing Robert Irwin and Donald Littles research on Arabic references during this period (Irwin 1986; Little 1984; Little 1986; Little 1998). 51 Thompson (2006, pp.1267, g.108 and note 107) illustrates a small border fragment from Fustat with a Kuc-style border and asymmetrical knotting and attributes it to the Mamluk period, prob - ably 14th century Egypt. The attribution appears to be based on its structure, even though Thompson expresses doubts about certain aspects of the analysis by Hoskins (2002) on which he relies. From the illustration the warps look like Z2S wool, not S-spun linen as recor ded. It is hard to see the spin of the pile yarn, and the spin of the wefts is not discernable in the illustration. The carpet should be re- examined before attempting to make a serious attribution as to its origin. 52 Two mid-15th century fragments found at Fustat: (1) 22 x 17.5cm. National Museum, Stockholm, no.231/1939. Exca - v ated in Fustat, Old Cairo. Published: Lamm 1937, pp.11011, no.19; Stock holm 1985, p 49, no.19 (with structure analysis); Suriano 1998, p.81, g.22; Suriano 2004, p.104, g.16. (2) 18.5 x 21.5cm. National Museum, Stockholm, no.232/1939. Excavated in Fustat, Old Cairo. Published: Lamm 1937, pp.11011, no.18; Ellis 1967, p.15, g.22; Stockholm 1985, p.48, no.18 (with structure analy - sis); Suriano 2004, p.104, g.16. 53 Sarre (1921) and Erdmann (1930, 1931) attributed them with condence to Egypt. 54 E.g. Housego 1986; Suriano 2004. 55 See note 62 below. 56 The Medici Mamluk carpet with three medallions. 409 x 1088cm. Argenti Mus - eum, Pitti Palace, Florence, no.5279. For - merly: Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici; Medici Grand Dukes, Florence. Published: Boralevi 1983, p.282, g.1 (with structure analysis); London 1983, pp.41, 612, no.21; Black 1985, p.62, g.b; Housego 1986, p.231 (cited, with structure analysis); Boralevi 1986, pp 2067, g.1; Bsch 1991, p.348, no.3 (cited, with structure analysis); Venice 1993, pp.3267, no.191; HALI 108, 2000, p.4 and front cover (detail); Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 2001, p.42 (cited); Florence 2002, p.142, no.115; HALI 146, 2006, p.51 (detail); Prato 2006, p.51; Okumura 2007, pp.2547, no.74 (with det - ails and structure analysis); Spallan zani 2007, p.55 (cited); Spallanzani [i.p.], g.2. Exhibited: Venice 1993; Florence 2002; Prato 2006. One of the largest antique oriental carpets known; entered the Medici archives between 1561 and 1571. 57 Boralevi 1986: Un tappeto Cairino lungo b.19 et largo b.7 mandato o Firenze a quella Guardaroba a di 29 di Dicembre 1587. The carpet is identied not only by its dimensions but also by the invent ory number painted on the back. Spallan zani 2007, p.55: The Medici carpet was taken from Florence to Rome in the 16th century and then returned to Florence. It is not mentioned in the inventories of 15534 or of 1560, but can be identied in some documents dated 15712. This does not prove that it was made in Cairo, but it shows that in the latter part of the 16th century it was thought to have come from there. Thompson (2006, p.165, note 150) expands on this and rightly questions the supposition it was without doubt made in Cairo: two other carpets listed in the inventory are almost certainly mislabel led, one as Cairene, the other as Turkish. Both would appear to be Iranian. Perhaps one was described as Cairene because it reached Italy via Alexandria, and the other had passed through Istan bul (many carpets described as Iranian passed through Istanbul at that time). 58 The San Rocco Mamluk carpet with three medallions. 375 x 970cm. Arcicon - fraternita di San Rocco, Venice. Published: Curatola 1986, p.124 (detail); Bsch 1991, p.354, no 21 (cited); Okumura 2007, pp.2367, no.66; Paris 2006, p.178, no.81; Venice 2007, p.190, no.64; Denny 2007, pp.178, 323, cat.81. Probably purchased after 1541. 59 Pinner 1986, pp.2934. 60 I have examined 92 of the 136 Mamluk- style carpets for which I have images (another 17 are recorded in the lit erature but not illustrated). I have sorted them in the rst instance by period and then by pattern schemes. They comprise: two Fustat fragments (excluding the symmet- rically knotted example in Alexandria pro - posed by W.G. Thomson); nine First period, probably before 1500; 28 Second period, probably rst quarter of the 16th century; 98 Third period, probably second and third quarter of the 16th century; eight Transitional, with Mamluk and Ottoman designs, probably second half of the 16th century. Kurt Erdmann, whose work on these carpets remains the most detailed to date, sorted Mamluk carpets into groups by their compositions in order to identify them more easily. His classication has been followed and adapted by other authors. Following Erdmann and Bsch, I have arranged the Mamluk car pets in my archive as follows. A, Multiple medallions: A1 Five medallions (1); A2 Three medal - lions (24). B, Single central medallion: B1 Bands with two sections (1); B2 Bands with three or more sections (21); B3 Bands with three or more sections and palms/ cypresses (18); B4 Undivided bands with palms/cypresses (7); B5 Undivided bands other (21). C, Single central medallion (no bands): C1 Corner motifs (10); C2 No cor - ner motifs (4). D, Plain eld: D1 Plain eld with blazon (3); D2 Related examples with - out blazon (2). E, Directional designs (3). F, Circular (3). G, Unclassiable fragments (8). H, Unsor ted, no images on le (17). I, Mamluk-Ottoman transitional (7). J, Frag - ments from 15th century carpets (2). 61 The Salvadori three-medallion Mamluk carpet. 153 x 218cm, about half the original width of an end section. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, no.T.150-1908. Form - erly: Giuseppe Salvadori, Florence (acq - uired in Italy). Published: Ellis 1967, p.8, g.12 (with structure analysis); Thom p son 1980, p.14, g.2; King 1981, p.36 (cited); Pinner and Franses 1981, p.38, g.1 (detail), p.42, g.1 (with struc ture analysis); London 1983, p.59, no.17; Housego 1986, p.232, g.19 (with struc - ture analysis); Gantz horn 1991, pp.2034, gs.31113; Suriano 2004, p.103, g.14. Exhibited: London 1983. 62 Three Mamluk carpets with blazons: (1) The Bardini Mamluk carpet with blazons. (a) 20923 x 2216cm, part of eld and border from left hand side of a very large carpet. Textile Museum, Wash - ing ton DC, no.1965.49.1. Formerly: Stefano Bardini, Florence; Heidi Vollmller, Switz - erland, 1965. Published: Ellis 1967, p.2, g.1, p.5, and front cover and g.10 (detail, with structure analysis; Ellis suggests the carpet was once about 450 x 1100cm); Camman 1972, p.48 (cited); Washington DC 1980, pp.845, no.6 (with structure analysis); Washington DC 1981, p.228 (cited); Pinner and Franses 1981, p.42 (cited); Ellis 1981, p.67, g.3; London 1983, p.60, no.18; Ellis 1985, p.62, g.1; Housego 1986, p.232, g.17 (with struc t - ure analysis); Boralevi 1986, p.209 (cited); Curatola 1989, p.253; Bsch 1991, pp.378 9, no.88; Isaacson 1991, p.44; Gantz horn 1991, p.369, g.504; Bsch 1996, p.92, g.10; Suriano 1996, no.13; Suriano 1998, pp.74, 76, gs.3, 5; Museum fr Ange - wan dte Kunst 2001, p 38 (cited); Farn ham 2001, p.84, g.23; HALI 129, 2003, p.65, g.2 (detail); Bier 2003(2), pp.3, 282, g.2 (with structure analysis); Istanbul 2007(2), p.83, g.1 (detail). Exhibited: Washington DC, Textile Museum, Mamluk and Otto - man Carpets, 1970; Washington DC 1980; Washington DC 1981; London 1983; Wash - ington DC 199192; Washington DC, Tex - tile Museum, Oriental Carpet Classics: A Tribute to Charles Grant Ellis, 1997; Wash - ington DC, Textile Museum, Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, March to September 2003. (b-r) 17 fragments, approximately two- thirds of the original carpet, 456 x 945cm. Bardini Museum, Florence, nos.526542. Published: Florence 1996, pp.9, 11, 19 and front cover (fragment); Suriano 1996; Suriano 1998, p.74, g.3 (all 17 fragments with TM fragment, reconstruc t ion), p.76, g.5 (one fragment, no.12/526, 228 x 219cm, with TM fragment), p.78, g.13 (two fragments, nos.3/528, 215 x 269cm, and 2/527, 228 x 267cm), p.79, g.14 (detail); Florence 1999, front cover (detail), pp.247, no.1 (with structure analysis); Boralevi 1999, p.79 (details of one frag - ment); Grube, 2000, p.82, gs.1, 2 (detail); Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 2001, p.38 (cited); Florence, 2002, p.139, no.112; Istanbul 2003, pp.867, no.10 (with struc - ture analysis); Suriano 2004, p.103, g.15 (one fragment, no.3/358, 215 x 269cm); Thompson 2006, pp.128, 130 (details); Spallanzani 2007, p.231, pl.94. Exhibited: Florence 1996; Florence 1999; Florence 2002; Istanbul 2003. (2) The Barbieri Mam - luk carpet with blazons. 341 x 415cm, probably reduced in length. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no.1970.135. Formerly: Piero Barbieri Col lection, Genoa; Joseph Pulitzer Col lection, 1970. Pub lished: Mayer 1933, pl.LXII, pp.29ff., nos.1, 4, 9, 14; Ellis 1967, p.6, no.9, g.11 (with struc - ture analy sis); Housego 1986, p.236 (cited, with struct ure analysis); Bsch 1991, p.380, no.90; Suriano 1998, p.75, gs.4 and 16 (detail); Suriano 2004, p.96, g.4; Thompson 2006, p.127 (cited); Okumura 2007, pp.2147, no.59 (with details and structure analysis). (3) The Bruschettini Mamluk carpet with blazons. Three frag - ments, 130 x 190cm, 195 x 358cm, 252 x 358cm. Bruschettini Foundation, Genoa, no.T9. Formerly: Garry Muse, Tucson, and The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Suriano 1998, p.75 and note 9 (cited). Some related Mamluk carpets without blazons:( 1) The Kelekian six-colour Mamluk carpet with large star medallion. 36 x 160cm, section of eld and small piece of border. Textile Museum, Washing - ton DC, no.R16.2.9 (R7.18), acq uired 1952. Formerly: Kelekian Collec tion; K. Beshir. Published: Erdmann 1940, p.67 (cited); Textile Museum 1957, p.29, and pl.XVI (with structure analysis); Housego 1986, p.239 (cited, with structure analy sis); Bsch 1991, p.377, no.84 (cited, with structure analysis); Bier 1991, p.123, g.2; Bier 2003(2), pp.13, 282, g.12 (with struc ture analysis). Exhibited: Washington DC 1991 92; Washington DC, Textile Mus eum, Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, March to September 2003. (2) The London Mamluk carpet with plain eld and star. D. Katz, USA. Formerly: The Textile Gallery, London. 63Two other rst-period Mamluk carpets: (1) The Vienna Mamluk carpet with three MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 88 HALI ISSUE 157 medallions. Twelve fragments, represent - ing over three-quarters of the carpet (app - roximately 223 x 550cm). sterreich isches Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Vienna, no.T8348, acquired in 1922. Formerly: Habs burg Imperial Collection, Vienna. Pub - lished: Sarre and Trenkwald 1926, vol.I, pls.49, 51 (two sections, shown as two separate carpets); Museum fr Kunst und Industrie 1929, p.110, no.33; Schuette 1935, g.12; Troll 1937(1), pp.221ff. (design reconstituted); Troll 1937(2), g.2 (with structure analysis); Bode and Khnel 1955, p.65, g.45; Erdmann 1961, pp.85, 103 (cited); Ellis 1967, p.10, g.15 (with structure ana lysis); Vlker 1979, p.13, g.1; Housego 1986, p.236 (cited, with structure analy sis); Bsch 1991, p.349, no.5 (cited, with struc t ure analysis); Gan - tz horn 1991, pp.198201, gs.298304; Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 2001, pp.3641, no.1 (with details and structure analysis); HALI 125, 2002, p.43 (detail, with structure analysis); Suriano 2004, p.102, g.11; Okumura 2007, pp.2467, no.70 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Vienna, Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Sym metric and Asymmetric Knots: Oriental Knotted Carpets from the MAK Collect ion, 11 December 2002 to 23 March 2003. (2) The Salvadori three- medallion Mamluk carpet. 153 x 218cm, about half the original width of an end section. Victoria & Albert Museum, Lon - don, no.150-1908. Formerly: Giuseppe Salva dori, Florence (acquired in Italy). Pub - lished: Ellis 1967, p.8, g.12 (with struct - ure analysis); Thompson 1980, p.14, g.2; King 1981, p 36 (cited); Pinner and Franses 1981, p.38, g.1 (detail), p.42, g.1 (with structure analysis); Lon don 1983, p.59, no.17; Housego 1986, p.232, g.19 (with structure analysis); Bsch 1991, p.349, no.6 (cited, with structure analysis); Gantzhorn 1991, p.2034, gs.31113; Murray 2000, p.91, g.11; Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 2001, p.38 (cited); Suriano 2004, p.103, g.14; Paris 2004, pp.1067, no.12 (with struc - ture analysis); Gilles and Franses 2005, p.93, g.7; Okumura 2007, pp.2223, no.61 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: London 1983; Paris 2004. 64 Transitional Mamluk-Ottoman carpets: (1) The Berlin lattice carpet. 128 x 185cm. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.KGM 1884.899. Published: Erdmann 1940, g.18; Textile Museum 1957, p.39 (cited); Essen 1961, no.393; Berlin 1967, no.85; Museum of Islamic Art 1988, pp.65, 213, no.70 (with structure analysis); Sothebys, New York, 27 September 2000, p.26 (cited). Exhibited: Essen 1961; Berlin 1967. (2) The Munich lattice carpet. 194 x 230cm. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. Published: Erdmann 1940, g.19; Textile Museum 1957, p.39 (cited); Hubel 1971, p.287, g.150 (with structure analysis). (3) The Mercer lattice carpet. 239 x 338cm. Franz Bausback, Mannheim. Formerly: Mercer Trust. Published: HALI 111, 2000, p.124; Sothebys, New York, 27 Septem - ber 2000, lot 48 (with structure analysis); Maastricht 2002, pp.1789; HALI 120, 2002, p 69; HALI 151, 2007, p.48. Exhib - ited: Maastricht 2002. (4) The Edirne oral lattice carpet. 384 x 317cm. Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, no.172. Formerly: Hazinedar Sinan Bey Mosque, Edirne. Published: Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts 1999, vol.1, p.30, pl.47 (with structure analysis). (5) The Benguiat oral medallion on lattice carpet. 138 x 188cm. Textile Museum, Washington DC, no.R16.3.2 (R.7.6), acquired 1932. For m - erly: Vitall & Leopold Benguiat Collection. Published: American Art Association 1932, lot 7(?); Textile Museum 1957, p.39, and pls.I, bottom right, and XXII (with struct - ure analysis); Erdmann 1961, pl.3, ill.7; Thom pson 1980, p.12 (cited); Ellis 1981, p.68, g.4; Yetkin 1981, p.106, ill.65; Soth - ebys, New York, 27 September 2000, p.26 (cited); Bier 2003(2), pp.9, 282, g.8 (with structure analysis); Okumura 2007, pp.218 - 21, no 60 (with details and struct ure analysis). Exhibited: Washington DC, Tex - tile Museum, Mamluk and Ottoman Car - pets, May to September 1970; Wash ing - ton DC 199192; Washington DC, Tex tile Museum, Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, March to September 2003. (6) The Munich Ottoman carpet in Mamluk format. 131 x 192cm. Private collection, Munich. For m - erly: Ostler, Munich. Published: Denny 1979, p.6. (7) The Bernheimer medallion ringed by palmettes carpet. 150 x 266cm. Whereabouts unknown. Formerly: Bern - heimer Collection, Munich, acquired 1921. Published: Christies, London, 14 February 1996, p.103, lot 99 (with structure analy - sis). (8) The Bernheimer rows of owers carpet. 171 x 109cm, section. Private col - lection, Germany. Formerly: Otto Bern - heimer Collection, Munich (until 1961). Published: Munich 1985, pp.2021, no.3. 65 Thompson 2006, p.164, note 148. Some authors have erroneously reversed the order of the groups (Mackie 1983, p.259; Thompson 2006, p.164, note 149), suggesting that the more simplied ver - sions are the earliest. This does not make sense, because several of the rugs with simpler designs and only three colours relate through their border patterns and colours to the rugs with Ottoman designs that continued to be made in the same work shops as the Mamluk-style rugs in the second half of the 16th century. 66 Housego 1986. 67 Thompson 1980. 68 Suriano 2004, p.96. 69 Ellis 1967, pp.220. 70 The oldest illustration of what may be a Mamluk rug is in Vittore Carpaccios Betrothal of the Virgin, ca. 15041507, but rm identication is not possible. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, no.169. Published: Erdmann 1930, p.14 (cited). The eld design appears somewhat Mamluk in style, but the borders are unlike those on any surviving carpet. Mamluk-style carpets from Cairo depic - ted in European paintings: (1) The Fish - erman Presenting St Marks Ring to the Doge. Paris Bordone (14951570), pain - ted circa 1540 (not 1534, as stated con - tinuously in the carpet literature and else - where). Galleria dellAccademia, Venice. Published: Thompson 2006, p.130, g.110 (detail). (2a-e) Portraits of Five Young Ladies of the House of Martinegro. Moretto da Brescia (or school of), before 1543. Frescos, Palazzo Martinegro-Salva dego, Brescia. Published: Erdmann 1940, g.9; Erdmann 1962, p.18, g.3; Cavallo 1962, p.66, g.3; Mills 1981, p.53, g.A2; London 1983, back endpaper; Thompson 2006, pp.1323, gs.112ae; Denny 2007, p.178, g.4. (3) Portrait of a Lady. Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, ca. 14851576). Kunst histor isches Museum, Vienna, no.33. Published: Erd - mann 1957, p.582 (cited). (4) Portrait of a Man. Attributed to G.B. Moroni, mid-16th century. Whereabouts unknown. Published: Htel Drouot, Paris, 18 December 1920; Mills 1981, p.534, g.A3. (5) Family Por t - rait. Sofonisba Anguis sola (15321625), 1560. Formerly: Galerie Raczynski, Berlin. Published: Les sing 1877, pl.21 (detail). (6) The Last Sup per. Ambrosius Franken the Elder (Flanders, 15441618). Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, no.136. Published: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988, p.123 (cited).(7) The Doge Pietro Loredan Praying for the End of Fam ine. Jacopo and/or Domenico Tintor - etto, probably 158184. Palazzo Ducale, Venice. Published: Erdmann 1930, p.14 (cited); Mills 1981, pp.534, g.A4.(8) The Doge Mocenigo Praying (Giving Thanks to the Redeemer/Adoring the Saviour). Jacopo and/or Domenico Tintoretto, prob - ably 158184. Palazzo Ducale, Venice. Pub lished: Erdmann 1930, p.14 (cited). (9) Painting by Tintoretto at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice [information from Dr A. Bruschettini, January 2008]. (10) Painting by Palma Il Giovane. [infor m a tion from Dr A. Bruschettini, January 2008]. (11) Portrait of a Lady. Leandro Bassano (Leandro da Ponte, 15571622). Whereabouts unknown. Published: Soth ebys, London, 13 December 1978, lot 37; Mills 1981, pp.534, g.A5. (12) Portrait of Daniel Hopfer II. Leandro Bassano, ca. 1595. Whereabouts unknown. For m erly: Fairfax Murray collection. Pub lished: Murray auc - tion, Berlin, November 1929; Erdmann 1930, p.14 (cited); Mills 1981, pp.534, no.A6 (cited). (13) Portrait of Alvisi Cor - radini. Leandro Bassano.Museo Civico, Padua. Published: Mills 1981, pp.534, no.A7 (cited).(14) The Duff Family. 16th/ 17th century? Duke of Fife. Pub lished: Beattie 1964, p.7, g.3; Philadel phia Mus - eum of Art 1988, p.123 (cited). (15) Portrait of the Family of Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany. Johann Zoffany, dated 1777. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, no.3771. Published: Sarre 1924, p.25. 71 Thompson 2006, p.130, gs.110, 111. 72 The Vienna three-medallion silk Mamluk carpet. 290 x 540cm. sterreichisches Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Vienna, no.T8332. Formerly: Habsburg Imperial collection, Vienna. Published: Riegl 1891, no.360; Vienna 1892, p.12 (cited); Riegl 1892, p.324, pl.XXIX; Sarre 1910, p.479, g.16; Munich 1910, no.166, pl.77; Munich 1912, no.166, pl.77; Sarre 1921, p.77, g.5; Khnel 1913/14, p.452; Bode and Khnel 1914, p.142, g.82; Sarre 1920, p.445, g.3; Vienna 1920, p.14, no.14; Sarre 1921, p 77, g.5; Bode and Khnel 1922, p 48 (cited) and g 88 (detail); Sarre 1924, p.19, g.1; Glck and Diez 1925, p.385; Rief - stahl 1925, p.159; Sarre and Trenkwald 1926, vol.I, pl.44, and pls.45, 46 (details); Migeon 1927, p.398 (cited); Museum fr Kunst und Industrie 1929, p.109, no.29; Troll 1930, p.253 (cited); Neugebauer and Troll 1930, pl.25 (detail); Erdmann 1930, gs.2, 3; Troll 1937(2), g.6 (detail, with structure analysis); Erdmann 1940, p.66 (cited); Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 1951, pls.4041; Mazzini 1952, p.333 (detail); Bode and Khnel 1955, 1958, 1970, 1984, g.48 (detail); Erdmann 1955, g.11 (detail); Heinz 1956, g.7; Textile Museum 1957, pp.31, 33, 35, 37 (cited); Erdmann 1960, pl.II (detail); Heinz 1962, p.42, g.4; Schlosser 1963, pp.1701, pl.96; Reichel 1969, pp.2189, no.61 (detail); Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973, p.194 (cited); Ellis 1974, p.36 (cited); Erdmann 1975, pl.II; Hein 1977, g.2; Keir Collection 1978, p.66 (cited); Tolomeo 1979, pl.XIV (detail); Cur a - tola 1981, no.32 (detail); Denny 1982, p.334, gs.15, 18; Zipper 1982, p.43; Field 1983, pp.40ff. (cited); Pagnano 1983, pl.26; Black 1985, p.62, g.a; ICOC 1986, p.26; Housego 1986, p.239 (cited, with struct - ure analy sis); De Unger 1986 (with struct - ure ana lysis); Gantzhorn 1991, pp.155, g.224; Bsch 1991, p.348, no.2 (cited, with struc ture analysis); Venice 1991, p.35 (cited); Milanese 1992, p.68; Scott 1993, p.1245; Denny and Black 1994, p.62, g.a; Noever 1995, p.122, g.123; Cura tola 1996, p.472 (cited); Stone 1997, p.140 (cited); Franses 1997, p.86, note 4 (cited); Little 1998, p.69; Milanese 1999, p.50; Museum fr Angewandte Kunst 2001, pp.425, gs.43, 45 (with structure ana ly sis); Mallary 2003, p.105, g.2 (detail); Suriano 2004, p.95, g.2; Okumura 2007, pp.2289 (with structure analysis). Exhib ited: Munich 1910; Vienna, Museum fr angewandte Kunst, Symmetric and Asymmetric Knots: Ori en - tal Knotted Carpets from the MAK Collec t - ion, 11 December 2002 to 23 March 2003. 73 Sarre 1924, pl.12, g.2. 74 Seven rst-period, ten-second period and 14 third-period. The exact number is difcult to determine because several are MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 89 incomplete. To date only one sur viv ing Mamluk with ve large medallions is known, the Faenza-Simonetti carpet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is possible that some of the sur - viving fragments, including many of the rst-period examples, may have come from carpets with three or even ve large medallions. Almost half of the three- and ve-medallion carpets can be traced back to Italian collections. 75 Three Mamluk-style rugs with direc t - ional designs: (1) The Bernheimer trees carpet. 163 x 226cm. Bruschettini Foun d - ation, Genoa, no.T36. Formerly: Bern - heimer Collection, Munich, no.56180 158/ 225; Elio Cittone, Milan. Published: Bern - heimer 1959, pl 4; Schrmann [1960], pl.20; Ellis 1967, p.11, g.16 (with struct - ure analysis); Suriano 2004, p.97, gs.5, 5a. (2) The Bode keyhole niche rug with cloudbands. 120 x 162cm, wool pile on a wool foundation. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, inv. no.KGM 1888.30. Formerly: Wilhelm Bode; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. Published: Erdmann 1940, p.75, g.21; Zick 1961(1), pp.78, g.1 and note 7 (with structure analysis); Ellis 1969, p.8, g.5 and p. 20, note 6 (with structure analysis); Washington DC 1974, p.130, g.19; Thompson 1980, p.9, g.2; Enderlein 1971 (cited); Milan 1981, p.24, g.7; London 1983, p.60, no.19 (detail); Boralevi 1986, p.216, g.12; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988, p.78 (cited); Enderlein 1988, p.34, g.22; Mills 1991, p.88, g.3; Enderlein 1993, p.92, g.15; Berlin 1995, pp.25, 36. no.16; ler et al. 1996, p.181, pl.128; Suriano 2004, p.94; Istanbul 2007(1), p.119, g.70, p.161, no.E1. Exhibited: London 1983; Berlin 1995; Istanbul 2007(1). (3) The Padua Ark curtain. 109 x 138cm, wool pile on a wool foundation. Padua Synagogue, Padua. Published: Mitteilungen 1900, p.24, g.15; Landsberger 19456, p.368, g.4; Kendrick and Barnett 1951, p.53, note 66 (cited); Gutmann 1970, p.144 (cited); Goodenough 1960, vol.4, p.138, g.103; Boralevi 1984, gs.1, 2; Boralevi 1986, pp.2113, g.5; Yaniv 1989; Ferrara 1990, no.119, pp.2089; Venice 1993, pp.3279, no.192; Papotti 1993, p.69; HALI 73, 1994, p.101 (cited); Felton 1997, p.19; Washington DC 2002, p.54, g.20; Prato 2006, p.44 (detail), pp.945, no.21; Paris 2006, pp.182, 3234, cat.82; Venice 2007, p.194, no.65; Denny 2007, pp.182, 3234, cat. 82; Pordenone 2007, p.71. Inscribed with Verse 20 of Psalm 118: This is the Gate of the Lord through which the righteous shall enter. 76 Riefstahl 1925, pp.15962. 77 See note 64, nos.14. 78 The Arhan Mamluk carpet. 251 x 308cm. MIAQ, no.CA22. Formerly: Yaya Arhan, Istanbul; Arhan family collection, Stockholm; Wher Collection; The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Whiting 1981, p.55. 79 Whiting 1981, p.55. 80 Three circular Mamluk carpets: (1) The Barbieri circular Mamluk carpet. 284 x 292cm. Bruschettini Foundation, Genoa, no.T48. Formerly: Piero Barbieri Collection, Genoa. Published: Erdmann 1966, p.220, g.271; Erdmann 1970, p.198, g.252; Sothebys, London, 12 October 1982, lot 38; HALI 5/2, 1982, p.203, g.37; London 1983, p.63, no.24; HALI 42, 1988, p.99; Bsch 1991, p.382, no.94; Okumura 2007, pp.1667, no.40; Spallanzani [i.p.], g.3. Exhibited: London 1983. (2) The Olmutz circular Mamluk carpet. Diameter 270cm. Kremsier Castle, Czech Republic. Formerly: Collection of the Archbishops of Olmutz. Published: Erdmann 1970, p.199 (cited); Stulc 2006, pp.41315, gs.14. (3) The Milan circular Mamluk carpet. 278 x 226cm. MIAQ, no.TE07. Formerly: Louise Michael, Milan; The Textile Gallery, London. 81 The Clark circular Cairene Ottoman carpet. 262 x 224cm. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, W.A Clark Collect - ion, no.26.294. Published: Troll 1937(2); Erdmann 1970, p.198 (cited); Bennett 1978, p.117; Yetkin 1981, p.105, ill. 63; HALI 127, 2003, p.41, g.3; Thompson 2006, p.172, g.157 (detail). Exhibited: Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The World at Our Feet. A Selection of Carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 4 April to 6 July 2003. 82 Diameter 291cm. Boralevis lecture at the HALI Fair 2006 and private communi- cation. The inventory is to be published in Spallanzani [i.p.]. 83 Erdmann 1938, vol.V, pt.2, p.189. Erdmann took the reference from Urkunden und Regesten aus der K.K. Hofbibliothek, in Jahrbuch der Kunst - histonschen Sammlungen des Aller - hochsten, Kaiserhauses 7 (1888), p.264, entry no.288: Two beautiful Algerian carpets, that [an important military man, equivalent to a general] from Genova handed over, with several colours and yellow woollen fringe, for a round table. 84 There is a slight chance that the Barbieri carpet is the one mentioned in the 1587 Medici archive, and that the carpet in Kremsier may be one of Ferdi - nands, also originally from the Medici. Marco Spallanzanis article Carpets at the Medici Court in the second half of the sixteenth century, to be published in the forthcoming Islamic Art (Bruschettini Foundation, Genoa). Spallanzani notes that: Francesco I inventory of 1587 passed to the Grand Duke Ferdinand, refers to Un tappeto tondo, cairino, di diametro di br.5 [290cm]. 85 Two study piece Mamluk carpets in the MIAQ: (1) The Bernheimer Mamluk car pet with medallion and bands of cyp - ress and palm trees. 137 x 204cm. MIAQ, no.CA04. Formerly: Bernheimer Collection, Munich, acquired 1911. Pub - lished: Christies, London, 14 February 1996, p.109, lot 103 (with structure analysis). (2) Mamluk carpet fragment. 49 x 191cm, eld section. MIAQ, no.CA06. Published: Lefevre, London, 31 October 1980, lot 1 (cited); Sothebys, London, 29 April 1981, lot 100; Christies, London, 30 April 1998, lot 24a. 86 Textile Museum 1957, p.41. The inv en - tories Khnel refers to are quoted by Erdmann 1938. For the information on the 1688 Commercial Register, Khnel refers to Erdmann 1938, p.198. The statements relating to the mosques are from 1573 and about 1650 Khnel here refers to Erdmann 1938, p.193. 87 Khnel (Textile Museum 1957, p.57, note 1), quoting Erdmann 1938, p.187, no.5. 88 Khnel (Textile Museum 1957, p.57, note 2), quoting Erdmann 1938, p.194, no.17. 89 By 1585, Cairo had been part of the Ottoman Empire for more than sixty years. The Sultan in Istanbul controlled the activities of the crafts guilds of his Empire wher ever they were based, and would have had no need to bring weav - ers to Istanbul. However, in 1582, on the occasion of the circumcision of his son, a grand festival was organised for Sultan Murad III at the Hippodrome in Istanbul. The festival included musicians, dancers, tight rope walkers and all the guilds of the Empire. Floats pas sed before the Sultan, while the guilds demon strated their skills before dignitaries from all over the world and many thousands of spectators. There is no specic record of car pet weavers at this festival, but I refer to it to demonstrate that the Sultan was inter ested in the work of the craftsmen of his Empire. It is quite possible that the nest carpet weavers in the Empire, those in Cairo, were brought to the cap - ital to present their work to the Sultan at a later date, and that the document citing the eleven rug masters refers to such a visit there seems to be no evidence that they stayed in Istanbul or anywhere else in the region for any length of time. 90 Martin 1908. Yet, when discussing the very ne blue-ground Cairene Otto man carpet in the Muse des Arts Dco r atifs, Paris, he states that: not only large carpets were made, but also prayer car - pets, of which some ne examples are in different collections...some have simple uncoloured prayer niches, others are richly decorated. As these carpets form of them - selves a separate group in design and technique widely different from all other carpets made at the same time in Asia Minor... (p.333). He goes on to write that Sarre believed that these carpets were made in Damascus. This only adds to the confusion in the rst writings on the early history of carpets. 91 Erdmann 1960/1962, gs.138, 139 and pl.VII; Bennett 1978, pp.11720; Denny 1986, pp.2459; Spuhler, in Mus - eum of Islamic Art 1988, p.112. Adher - ents of the Bursa/Istanbul theory also seem to have overlooked other pertinent evidence. For example, although Khnel points out Erdmanns interesting discov - ery that an inventory of the Saray in Istanbul, dated 1680, mentions twenty silk prayer carpets from Egypt (Textile Museum 1957, p.42, quoting from Erd - mann 1938, p.197, no.24), he does not examine it more closely. The shininess of Egyptian wool is deceptive: it looks very different to Turkish wool and is often mistaken for silk. Furthermore, rugs with silk fringes were often called silk rugs. It is possible, therefore, that the Otto man niche rugs in the Topkap Saray Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, are the last two survivors of the twenty. 92 As far as I know, both silk and cotton can be spun in either direction. S-spun silk tends to pre-date Z-spun in European silks; the cotton used on Egyptian carpets was presumably produced locally, and the reels of spun silk were imported, gen erally from Iran. 93 Pinner and Franses 1981. The fact that some Cairene Ottoman rugs have silk warps, wool wefts and some cotton pile was not addressed. 94 The Medici Ottoman carpet. 330 x 995cm. Pitti Palace, Florence, no.5278. Published: Boralevi 1983, pp.2823 (with structure analysis); London 1983, p.41 and pp.835, no.56; Boralevi 1986, pp.20511, gs.2, 4. The carpet is in an unused condition and appears as new, with bright and gaudy colours. 95 Boralevi 1983, p.282: Tappeto grande Cairno buono lungo b17 et largo b.5 e 2/3, avuto dal Gen. Cav Da Verrazzano Commissario delle Galere addi 31 luglio. The cited size exactly matches that of the actual carpet. 96 Whiting 1981, p.55, found that the red of all ve Mamluks in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, had been dyed with lac. The red of a Mamluk carpet in the Wher Collection had been dyed with cochineal. The Wher carpet has a minor guard border with the intamani design normally associated with the Ottoman period. Whiting (p.56) tells us that: all three of the main species of insect dye were theoretically available for use in these carpets: kermes from Spain, lac from India and genuine cochineal from Mexico. ... Cochineal, even when it had become familiar in Europe, was a very valuable commodity, and the earliest ship ments beginning in 1530, would have aroused extreme interest in Spain... Bh mer has reported that little or no use of cochineal or other insect dyes occurred in Turkish MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 90 HALI ISSUE 157 villages before 1850 when cul ti va tion began in the Mediterranean region. 97 Whiting 1981, pp.556. 98 See note 64, no.6. 99 The Hackwood Park Cairene Ottoman medallion carpet. 281 x 517cm. MIAQ, no.CA05. Formerly: Lord Camrose Col - lec t ion, Hackwood House, Hampshire. Published: Christies, Hackwood House, 21 April 1998, lot 1118; HALI 99, 1998, p.123. 100 The Bernheimer Cairene Ottoman medallion rug. 132 x 191cm. MIAQ, no.CA63. Formerly: Consul Otto Bern - heimer, Munich, acquired 1919; Bern - heimer family collection, Munich; private collection. Published: Hamburg 1950, no.9, pp.223, pl.8; Erdmann 1955, no.130; Bernheimer 1959, pl.5; Yetkin 1981, p.116, no.73; Christies, London, 14 February 1996, lot 83; Christies, London, 29 April 2004, lot 101. 101 King 1985, pp.4952. 102 See Pinner 1986, pp.3023. At least fourteen compartment design carpets can be identied in the inventories of Car dinal Wolsey, Margaret of Austria, Archduchess Margarethe of Mechelen, King Henry VIII of England, Anna von Ungarn and Arch - duke Ferdinand II, as well as in Haram and Florentine documents. 103 Milan 1981, p.25, g.8. 104 See: Mills 1981, pp.535; Thompson 2006, p.152, g.146. 105 Twelve of these appear in paintings by just two artists and may represent only two examples: (1) Simon Kick, Self Portait, 16451650. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, no.164550. (2) Pietro Pao - lini (16031681), Self Portrait. Publis hed: Thompson 2006, pp.1523, gs.146, 147, see also p.155, note 138. 106 Para-Mamluk carpets: (1) The Divrigi domes and squinches carpet. 185 x 195cm, incomplete. Vakar Museum, Istanbul, no.A-217. Formerly: Ulu Mosque, Divrigi. Published: Ellis 1967; Vakar Mus eum 1988, pp.4045, 9, 1801, pl.2 (with structure analysis); Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988, p.9, g.2a; Esken azi 1986; Franses and Bennett 1988, p.37; Thompson 2006, p.39, g.2, pp.1467, gs.1379. (2) The Divrigi multiple lattice carpet. 230 x 380cm, incomplete. Vakar Museum, Istanbul, no.A-344. Formerly: Ulu Mosque, Divrigi. Published: Ellis 1967, p.19, note 33 (cited); Vakar Museum 1988, pp.349, 1789, pl.1 (with struct - ure analysis); Thompson 2006, p.146, g.133.(3) The Williams four-and-one octagons rug. 125 x 178cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, no.55-65-2. Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection, Philadelphia. Published: New York 1910, p.11, no.8; Erdmann 1930, g.8; Erdmann 1961, g.33; Ellis 1963, g.2; Ellis 1967, p.19, note 33 (cited); Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973, g.15; Ellis 1978, p.32, g.7; Atil 1980, p.312, ill. 178; Pinner and Fran - ses 1981, p.41 (cited); London 1983, p.66, no.28; Black 1985, p.52, g.6b; Pin ner 1986, p.6, g.9; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988, pp.47, pl.1 (with structure analysis); Thompson 2006, p.138, g.117. Exhibited: New York 1910; London 1983. (4) The Paris four-and-one medallions rug. 141 x 207cm. Tabibnia Collection, Milan. Formerly: Private collection, Paris; Vigo Art Galleries, London; Charles Grant Ellis Collection, Kingston, NY; Wher Col lec t ion. Published: Washington DC 1973, g.24; Foster 1979, pl.V; Pinner and Fran ses 1981, p.41, g.g; Pinner 1986, p.6, g.8; Philadelphia Museum of Art 1988, p.6, g.1c; Paris 1989, pp.4041 (with struct - ure analysis); Thompson 2006, pp.1245, pl.12 (with structure analysis). Exhibited: Washington DC 1973; Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, 19891994; Milan 2006. Carbon-14 dated 14601640 (95% con - dence). (5) The Bernheimer four-and-one octagons carpet. 112 x 116cm, incomp - lete. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.I.33/60. Formerly: Bernheimer Collec - tion, Munich. Published: Bernheimer 1959, g.2; Ellis 1963, gs.1, 3, 5; Ellis 1967, p.19, note 33 (cited); Erdmann 1970, p.154, g.198; Museum of Islamic Art 1988, pp.67 and 217, pl.74 (with structure analysis); Pinner and Franses 1980, g.209, p.110; HALI 71, 1993, p.119; Thompson 2006, p.136, g.115. (6) The Blum medallions and lattice carpet. 255 x 285cm. Bruschettini Foundation, Genoa. Formerly: Mrs Harry Blum, USA; The Textile Gallery, London. Published: Sothebys, New York, 1 May 1982, lot 295; HALI 4/4, 1982, p.400; Thompson 2006, p.157, g.153. (7) The Myers med - allions carpet. 98 x 45cm, fragment. Tex - tile Museum, Washington DC, no.R7.21 (R34.32.1). Formerly: Rhode Island School of Design (1953, by exch ange); George Hewitt Myers, Washing ton DC. Published: Textile Museum 1957, p.77, pl.XLV; Ellis 1967, p.12 (cited); Pinner and Franses 1981, p.41 (cited); HALI 94, 1997, p.61; Thompson 2006, p.139, g.118. (8) The Campana twelve-and-one medal - lions carpet. 232 x 302cm, incom plete. Brus ch ettini Foundation, Genoa, no.T38. For m erly: Michele Campana, Milan. Pub - lished: Erdmann 1961, g.31; Ellis 1967, p.12 (cited); Viale and Viale 1969, g.147; Pinner and Franses 1981, p.52, g.n; HALI 93, 1997, p.75, g.7 (detail); HALI 94, 1997, p.61 (cited); Thompson 2006, p.140, g.121. (9) The Dresden octagons rug. 44.5 x 40.5cm, oval fragment. Kunst - gewerbe Museum, Dresden, no.343. Pub lished: Lessing, 1887; HALI 71, 1993, p.106, g.1; Thompson 2006, p.139, g.120. Exhibited: Hamburg, 7th ICOC, 1993. (10) The Konya rug. Small frag ment, framed with a Beyshehir fragment and several others. Ethnographic Museum, Konya. Published: Ellis 1967, p.19, note 33 (cited); Thompson 2006, p.139, g.119 (symmetrically knotted).(11) The Dus sel - dorf medallion lattice rug. Whereabouts unknown. Formerly: City art collection, Dusseldorf. Published: Thompson 2006, p.156, g.151. (12) The Cairo two-octagon carpet. Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo. Published: Moustapha 1949; Thompson 2006, pp.146, 148, gs.136, 142. (13) The Cairo compartment design car pet. Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo. Published: Bode and Khnel 1955, p.76, g.55. (14) The Chihil Sultun niche rug with Kuc inscription. 105 x 141cm. Carpet Museum, Tehran. Formerly: Chihil Sutun Kiosk, Esfahan. Published: Erdmann 1966, pp.8793 (Turkey, late 19th century); Ellis 1967, pp.220 (Turkey, late 19th century); Gans-Ruedin 1978, pp.1445; Mills 1997, p.72, g.1; Franses 1999, p.50, g.31; Thompson 2006, p.137, g.116. Inscription reads Hasten to repent before death. 107 Eskenazi 1986 wrote that the Domes and Squinches rug could have been made for the opening of the Divrigi Mosque (12289) or that it could be a 15th century carpet copying earlier architect ural orna - ment. I nd it unlikely that a rug with such a pattern would have been made for the mosque. We know of the Safavid Shah Tahmasps gift to the congregation of the Sleyman Mosque in Istanbul of a multi- niche prayer carpet (saf), and of the saf carpets made in Ushak by order of Sultan Selim II in the early 1570s for the Edirne Mosque. But a two-octagon rug is a less likely gift or commission. Most of the rugs preserved in mosques were given by the congregation, occasionally from the estate and in memory of a deceased parent. This suggests that many of the rugs found in mosques may have been at least a gen - eration old at the time of their bequest. 108 Para-Mamluk carpets depicted in European paintings (in date order): (1) Mark Enthroned with Saints. Giovanni Martini da Udine, 1501. The Cathedral, Udine. Published: Mills 1997, p.73 (detail). (2) Altarpiece. Lorenzo Lotto, 1505. Church of Santa Christina al Tivarone, Treviso. (3) The Doge Loredan and Four Advisors. Giovanni Bellini (ca. 14301516), dated 1507. Gemldegalerie, Berlin. Published: Nemes, Munich, 16 June 1931; Mills 1981, p.53, g.A1; HALI 56, 1991, p.133 (detail); Thompson 2006, p.141, g.122; Arcangeli 2006, p.124. (4) The Story of the Amazons. Vittore Carpaccio, 1517. Muse Jacquemart Andr, Paris. Pub - lished: Mills 1981, p.54, no.B2 (cited). (5) The Prothonotary Apostolic, Giovanni Giuliano. Lorenzo Lotto, 151920 or after 1530(?). National Gallery, London, no.1105. Published: Erdmann 1940, g.8; Mills 1981, p.54, no.B3 (detail). (6) The Rich Mans Feast, or Dives Feasting. Boni fazio Veronese (Bonifazio di Pitati, 1487 1553), rst half 16th century. Galleria dellAcc ad - emia, Venice, cat. 326, no.291. Pub lished: Mills 1981, p.54, no.B6; Mills 1997, p.73, g.2. (7) The Presentation in the Temple. Bonifazio Veronese, rst half 16th century. National Museum, Stock holm. Published: Mills 1981, p.55, g.B6 (cited). (8) Portrait of a Man. Francesco Beccar uzzi, rst half 16th century. Gal leria degli Ufzi, Florence, no.908. Pub lished: Mills 1981, p.54, no.B5 (detail); Thompson 2006, p.135, g.114. (9) Saint Antoninus Giving Alms. Lotto Lorenzo, 1542. Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Pub lished: Mills 1981, p.54, no.B4 (cited); Thomp - son 2006, p.142, g.125.(10) Venetian Senator. Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535 1626). Burghley House Collection, Stam - ford. Published: HALI 94, 1997, p.61; Thompson 2006, p.134, g.113. (11) Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguis sola Playing Chess. Sofonisba Anguissola, 1555. Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan. Published: Ellis 1997, p.77, g.9. (12) The Virgin with Angelic Musicians. Unknown Flemish artist, probably mid- 16th century. Museo Arqueolgico Nacional, Madrid, no.51967. Published: Thompson 2006, p.143, g.127. 109 Thompson (2006, p.149) mentions the Munich and Wind car pets as examples of the international style. They have some simil arities in design to the para-Mamluks, but their technique and colours seem to place them with rugs attributed to west Anatolia. 110 Thompson has spent many years studying Turkmen rugs from west Turkestan and has written possibly the nest book on this subject (Mackie and Thompson 1980). 111 I am very uncomfortable with the idea that these rugs were ever part of the Turkmen design tradition from Iran. However, it is easy to see a connection between the ivory-ground Seljuk car - pets possibly from Konya and the Turk - men tradition, and there is a clear link between Iranian paintings of the 15th century and the so-called small-pattern Holbein carpets of western Anatolia. To connect para-Mamluk rugs to Iran through the use of an open Kufesque and inter - lace border is problematic when the pat - tern was part of an international style that stretched from west Anatolia to India in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. 112 The term compartment (and the earlier che querboard) was coined by Ernst Khnel. 113 Some carpets with other Syrian designs: (1) The Istanbul three-medallion carpet 1. 293 x 770cm. Museum of Turk - ish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, nos 844- 846-850-869 (four pieces). Published: ler et al. 1996, pp.11821, pl.86; Thom pson 2006, p.155, g.149; Istanbul 2007(2), p.53, no.31. (2) The Istanbul three-medallion carpet 2. 292 x 765cm. Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, nos 845-847-848-849-851-868 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS HALI ISSUE 157 91 (six pieces). Published: Museum of Turk ish and Islamic Arts 1999, pl.1; Thompson 2006, p.155, g.150; Istanbul 2007(2), p.54, no.32. (3) The Berlin cloudband carpet. 163 x 411cm. Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, no.86.601. Published: Zick-Nissen 1966, p.111, g.9; Museum fr Islamische Kunst 1971/1979, no.583; Museum of Islamic Art 1988, pp.66 and 216, pl.73. (4) Single-niche fragments from a saf. (a) 69 x 60cm. Wher Collec tion. Formerly: Garry Muse, Tucson; The Textile Gallery, London. Published: HALI 4/1, 1981, p.56. (b) Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul. (5) The Salva - dore palmettes carpet. 82 x 74cm and 83 x 54cm, two fragments. Keir Collect ion, Ham. Formerly: Salvadore, Florence. Published: Keir Collection 1978, pp.778, pl.39 (Z-spun, asymmetrically knotted). (6) The Salvadore eight-pointed star med - al lion carpet. 180 x 150cm, incomplete. Keir Collection, Ham. Formerly: Salvadore, Florence. Published: Keir Collection 1978, pp.789, pl.40 (Z-spun, symmetrically knotted). (7) The Wolf palmette and blos - som carpet. 126 x 343cm. Metro politan Museum of Art, New York, no.1990.169. Formerly: Marshall & Marilyn R. Wolf, New York. Published: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Fall 1991, p.12. (8) The Divrigi palmettes in lattice carpet. 228 x 383cm. Vakar Museum, Istanbul, no.A-172. For merly: Ulu Mosque, Divrigi. Published: Vak ar Museum 1998, pp.12431, 2923, pl.58 (with structure analysis).(9) The Div rigi palmettes and cloudbands rug. 200 x 293cm. Vakar Museum, Istan bul, no.A-216. Formerly: Ulu Mosque, Divrigi. Published: Vakar Museum 1998, pp.12431, 2945, pl.59 (with structure analysis). (10) The Muse cartouche border carpet. 15 x 46cm, border section. MIAQ, no TE14. Form erly: Garry Muse, Tuscson; The Textile Gallery, London; Wher Col - lection. Pub lished: HALI 4/1, 1981, p.56; Thompson 2006, p.156, g.152. 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