5 x 7 - Red Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug - 52755
5 x 7 - Red Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug - 52755
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Description:-
52755 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug, 05'05 x 07'04.
The Ancestral Garden: A Vintage Turkish Oushak Masterpiece of Sacred Symbolism
This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug presents a fascinating prayer-format composition steeped in the symbolic language of Anatolian weaving. Two distinct compartments create a striking vertical narrative, transforming the field into a succession of talismanic panels filled with ancestral motifs. The time-softened abrash enhances its sense of authenticity, while the unconventional arrangement gives this stunning masterwork the character of a personal weaving created to express protection, fertility, strength, and spiritual continuity. It is a compelling collector’s carpet whose visual power lies in meaning as much as ornament.
Within the upper compartment, stylized Trees of Life rise vertically beneath angular forms suggestive of a prayer niche, accompanied by ram’s horns, hooked devices, and enigmatic tribal marks. The Tree of Life is among Anatolia’s most profound symbols, representing immortality, regeneration, and the connection between earthly existence and the divine. Iconic ram’s horn motifs, or koçboynuzu, traditionally signify masculine power, courage, fertility, and heroism, giving this section an underlying message of vitality and enduring lineage.
The lower panel develops the symbolic narrative through additional tree forms, hands-on-hips motifs, scorpions, S-hooks, and latch hooks. Known in Turkish as elibelinde, the hands-on-hips figure has long been associated with femininity, motherhood, abundance, and fertility. Scorpion imagery served an apotropaic purpose, invoking protection against danger, while hooked forms functioned as safeguarding devices intended to repel harmful influences. Together, these ancient signs turn the exceptional composition into a woven vocabulary of wishes and defenses, preserving beliefs passed through generations of Anatolian textile culture.
Encircling the prayer field is a stylized leaf border accompanied by inner and outer eight-point star guard bands, creating an elaborate symbolic threshold around the central imagery. Leaves convey growth and renewal, while the octagram has associations with balance, guidance, and cosmic order within the broader decorative traditions of the region. Rich in iconography and distinguished by its unusual compartmental structure, this vintage Oushak offers the discerning collector an exquisite work of art—an extraordinary masterpiece where craftsmanship, spirituality, and centuries-old symbolism converge.
- Abrash. Desirable Age Wear.
- Hand-knotted wool.
- Made in Turkey.
- Measures: 05'05 x 07'04.
- Date: 1940's. Mid-20th Century.