£1,750.00
Ladik rugs carpets in a prayer design and made in or near Lâdik, a town in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey. Ladik prayer rugs have either a high, stepped arch design or a triple arch with a dominating central portion. In a separate panel above or below the prayer-niche motif, a group of five or more flower stalks project upward from a band of crenellation.
Although a few date to the late 18th century, most Ladik carpets were made in the 19th century. The term column Ladik has been applied to prayer rugs that, regardless of their actual places of origin, share a motif derived from a 16th-century Ottoman court design, consisting of three arches of unequal height supported upon slender columns and surmounted by a panel as described earlier. Most column Ladiks have been found in Europe, and some possibly were made in the Balkans in the 17th and 18th centuries. A less sophisticated, more recent type, with bolder colouring, comes from the nearby city of Konya. (Britanica)
Antique Konya Ladik Prayer Rug
Ladik Prayer Rug, Central Anatolia, 3’7” x 6’4” (109×193 cm) Material: wool pile, wool warp, wool weft.
This is a museum quality rug; it is dated 1230 which is ca. 1815
Please look at the last photo: Left:18th century Ladik prayer rug found in the Serafettin Mosque in Konya.(Vakiflar Hali Museum, Istanbul) (JOZAN) Right: a Ladik dated 1230 (ca. 1815) in my collection
