Ben Banayan

Western Anatolian Medallion Rug, great color and organic asymmetry, mounted and conserved.

circa 8th century silk samite textile fragment with paired birds in pearl roundels. Central Asian / Sogdian. apx. 10"x16"

East Anatolian Yastik with spectacularly abstracted drawing. Woven with the thick glossy soft wool that this group is known for. Very colorful ... read more

Baluch Prayer Rug with minakhani border and camel field. Lustrous wool! Khorosan, 19th century.

Turkmen ensi, not quite Yomut, not quite Chodor

East Anatolian Kurd Rug, fantastic wool, saturated color. orange wefted, condition issues, good scale, recently washed and gleaming. 7'3"x4'5"

Salor fragment, half gul from a main carpet

8 Gul Tekke torba. One of only a handful of known examples. Good age, fine weave with classic Tekke drawing. Some cotton ... read more

Yastik-shaped East Anatolian pastiche nicely assembled from what must have been a great East Anatolian Sivas? rug. Thick pile, good colors, could ... read more

Ghostly border fragment with cloudbands and cartouches nw Persian Tabriz area medallion carpet of which there are perhaps four known examples(Boston, Paris, ... read more

East Anatolian Rug with Transylvanian Border. Great graphics, 3 medallions nicely drawn with an assortment of scorpions. Good colors with an unusual ... read more

19th cen. Tibetan ' Wangden ' 'warp-back' square with Dorje Tantric thunderbolts making a quatrafoil in the center. Two greens. The pile ... read more

Antique Caucasian Memling Gul Rug. Fantastically smashed but...

17th Century Indo-Esfahan Fragment with several greens and lac. 2'6"x3'7" / 76x109cm

2 Fragments of an Unusual Anatolian Rug with Stars.

Truly Tribal, Authentically Antique Kirghiz Main Carpet. Three compartments of eshik-tish staffs. single wefted, all natural colors including madder red, insect / ... read more

Very long antique Reyhanli kilim from Eastern Anatolia. Older than most with a very good color range and saturation including a great ... read more

Turkish eye-dazzler Kilim, perhaps western Anatolian or Monastir. Complete piece with purple, green, two oranges, red and yellow. (46"x82" 117x208cm)

Central Anatolian Rug Fragment, circa 1800, with vibrant and multiple colors. Bold geometry and exceptional proportions. (5'3" x 3'1" / 160x94cm)

Colorful and very old fragment of a flat-woven East Anatolian chuval with well-drawn Memling guls and kilim stripes.

2 Baluch square middle star bags. The top piece is quite old. The bottom piece is younger but still antique.

Anatolian Fragment,

Very Soft Tekke Ensi, good colors, classic drawing with exceptionally good wool.