Story

A beautiful and inspiring prayer carpet woven in the mid 1800s in the Anatolian village of Mucur (Mujur). The style is known as Majidi after the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Majid I (Abdul Mecit I) who reigned between 1839 and 1861. This was the period of the Tanzimat reforms which extended ultimately to a "renovation" of courtly arts. The resultant style is called Majidi or simply Ottoman Baroque. Large flower forms and leafy motifs take center stage.

The 𝘔𝘦𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘣 or prayer arch is a rambling silhouette that wraps around the field and crescendos to a climax at its top, floating on a crimson red ground both within and without its contours. It encompasses an imposing bouquet with a noticeable tulip, the favored Ottoman court flower. Below it (and mirror reversed above) are architectural motifs borrowed from actual imperial congregational mosque interior architecture: this form is called a 𝘔𝘢𝘲𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢 and was an enclosed and elevated platform inside the principal prayer chamber of a mosque where members of the Ottoman royal family gathered to pray in private, secluded from the masses of faithful worshippers.

Perfect condition, excellent dye materials.
A collectible work of Islamic Art.