IZKANDAR

My passion is to find and collect ethnographically significant weavings and textiles, as well as Islamic and Indian antiques.

  • a West Persian tribal rug, with hand-spun cotton warps and thick, long-staple wool. Natural brown wool field and organic dyes throughout. ... read more
    price:  Please ask

  • a rare Kuchi rug, which i collected 10 years ago in the bazaar of Herat. The pile is wonderfully thick and velvety ... read more
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  • a Middle Amu Darya Turkmen juval, possibly Salor or Ali Eli, mid-19th Century or earlier. This bag retains the original back with ... read more
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  • a vibrant Karabagh Kazak, late 19th Century. 258 x 110 cm. The ends are rewoven and there is some old repiling, but ... read more
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  • a thick gabbeh/yatak type rug, possibly Kurdish from North West Persia. 185 x 136 cm. Luminous natural colours and long-staple glossy wool ... read more
    price:  not expensive

  • a finely woven Afshar rug 195 x 150 cm, probably from Shahr Babak vicinity near Kirman. About 1900. Thick velvety pile in ... read more
    price:  not expensive

  • a Belouch-like rug from Khorassan, with glossy wool and excellent drawing. 174 x 87 cm. There is an excellent aubergine and what ... read more
    price:  reasonable

  • a North West Persian rug, 240 x 110 cm. Good colours and strong design, about 1900.

  • a quirky South Caucasian rug, possibly woven by the Moghan or Karabagh Kurds.
    price:  nice

  • Attractive white ground Bijar rug with animated arabesques.

  • a very tactile Baluch khorjin with its original tassels and flatwoven back. Very lustrous pile of best quality wool.

  • a great little Baluch with embossed effect due to corroded browns.
    price:  nice

  • a beaten and faded Anatolian prayer rug, but still has plenty of charm. Late 19th Century, 195 x 122 cm. Friendly price.

  • a fabulous 19th century Kurdish rug from Northwest Persia, with an archaic interlocking chevron design. The rug is in good condition, with ... read more
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  • a charming small Qashqai chanteh, late 19th century. During its working life the bag has been reinforced with a rawhide strip around ... read more
    price:  not expensive

  • a charming small incised and glazed earthenware bowl, 12.8 cm diam, 6 cm high. Khorassan, 11th or 12th Century. Repaired clean breaks ... read more

  • a very fine small Kashan or Minai lustre ceramic bowl. 11.8 cm diameter, 6.2 cm high. Traces of fine calligraphy and arabesques ... read more
    price:  $100 plus shipping

  • Wondrous colour! Old Anatolian kilim fragment, about 1m x 75cm.
    price:  please ask

  • Worn but still beautiful Jaff Kurdish rug from northwest Persia. Good natural colours, condition as shown.
    price:  not expensive

  • From an English estate, a late nineteenth century Qashqai or Khamseh rug, in generally good condition but in need of a wash. ... read more
    price:  nice

  • a good Bakhtiari soumak khorjin. Friendly price.

  • a perfectly formed Azeri brocaded salt-bag from the 19th century, Karabagh region. Mafrash panels are known with this pattern, but namakhdan are ... read more

  • Yomut ensi, late 19th century. Good natural colours and condition. 180 x 130 cm
    price:  reasonable

  • An East Anatolian rug with interesting motifs. Late 19th Century. 140 x 107cm
    price:  sold

  • a very early Belouch, wool like silk. 105 x 90 cm
    price:  reasonable

  • a very early Ersari or Middle Amu Darya Chuval, battered but with great presence. 69 x 123cm
    price:  reasonable, please ask

  • a large Belouch kilim woven in two parts. 11'5" x 6'5", 348 x 195 cm
    price:  $450 plus shipping

  • Battered but unique Shavak rug from the region of Elazig in Anatolia. Fabulous wool and colours, 19th century. 240x108cm
    price:  ask please

  • An extremely fine Perepedil rug, late 19th century.
    price:  reasonable

  • An intriguing rug, possibly Shahsevan/Karadagh?, with an array of good colours. Note the interesting human figures, and the trefoil border that is ... read more
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  • a 16th or 17th Century Kubachi frit-ware bowl, with abstract geometric drawing.
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  • Central Anatolian prayer filikli, 115 x 73 cm.
    price:  please ask

  • An Ottoman silk and metal thread bocha, late 19th century
    price:  please ask

  • a rare Kashan velvet silk ikat panel, 19th Century. 158 x 121 cm. Provenance: Hobart-Moore Collection.
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  • An extremely fine 19th century Azeri embroidered panel, 43 x 60cm
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  • a Central Asian tent-band fragment, 150 x 32cm

  • a Central Asian tent-band length. 148 x 28 cm.

  • An early and archaic Belouch prayer rug with squarish format. Please ask for more details.

  • Two interesting Rabat embroidery fragments, 19th century.
    price:  60 euro

  • Beaten-up but still attractive south Caucasian Shahsavan rug. More pictures available

  • a small Qashqai chanteh with a big presence! About 28cm square, the weft substitution technique with white cotton providing a dramatic contrast. ... read more
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  • a dark-ground Turkoman chuval, Yomut group. 73 x132cm. Last quarter 19th century. In good pile and with its original plainweave back.
    price:  Reasonable, please ask

  • An East Anatolian Kurdish rug, late 19th Century, with archaic motifs in offset knotting technique. Corroded browns and some wear in the
    price:  Not expensive, please ask

  • a Serab runner in excellent condition, with a lively boteh field, c.1900

  • An early Shulaver or South Caucasian rug 260 x 99 cm, with wonderful bright, clear colours. Mixed wool and cotton wefts. Quite ... read more
    price:  Not expensive

  • a late 19th century aimaq rug, 155 x 91cm, with a diagonal latchhook field of the 'mushwani' Belouch type. Deep saturated blues, ... read more
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  • An extremely fine mid-19th century Tekke juval with glowing insect reds and silk highlights. Cloth-like handle and in original condition, save for ... read more
    price:  sold

  • a good Yomut ensi, probably last third 19th century with all natural dyes and an attractive range of blues. 180 x 130
    price:  please ask