Mujur Prayer Rug
Mid 19th century, 168 x 123 cm, Central Anatolia
The colourful Mujur prayer rugs were highly popular during the 19th century and exported to many countries of the Ottoman Empire. Pictures by “orientalist” painters portraying bazaar scenes in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia often included Mujur prayer rugs. The design type featuring a usually undecorated, red mihrab field, a steeply ascending stepped arch and a panel of large red arrowheads above it is remarkably consistent. The same is true for the wide three-stripe border. – Signs of age and wear, low pile, repiled areas in the red field, original selvedges.
THOMPSON, JON, Carpet Magic. London 1983, Tf.S.4
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Mid 19th century, 168 x 123 cm, Central Anatolia
The colourful Mujur prayer rugs were highly popular during the 19th century and exported to many countries of the Ottoman Empire. Pictures by “orientalist” painters portraying bazaar scenes in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia often included Mujur prayer rugs. The design type featuring a usually undecorated, red mihrab field, a steeply ascending stepped arch and a panel of large red arrowheads above it is remarkably consistent. The same is true for the wide three-stripe border. – Signs of age and wear, low pile, repiled areas in the red field, original selvedges.
THOMPSON, JON, Carpet Magic. London 1983, Tf.S.4
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