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  • Baluch complete double saddle bag set, a small khorjin or possibly a chanteh set? Sistan area. Silk pile highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Khotan rug, smaller size measuring 3'6"x5'7". Classic central medallion design with a fantastic border. Areas of conservative restoration.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Unusual Baluch prayer rug with dark natural undyed camel wool and saturated natural dyes. An eccentric rendering of a classic design type ... read more
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ivory ground Baluch salt bag, pile front, flatwoven back
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.
    price:  $850

  • Yomut wedding? rug. Cute piece with good dyes.
    price:  $400

  • East Anatolian Kurdish divan cover. Red-wefted group with great color including slate blues and greens, salmon, and good. fragmented into three pieces, ... read more
    price:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Fabulous Kangxi era Ningxia Chinese rug, circa 1700. 4'5"x6'2". Small format classical Chinese piece with spectacular drawing.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch bird bag with intriguing border, fine weave, saturated natural color.
    price:  cheap cheap cheap! tweet the birds benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  $450

  • Middle Amu Darya region Turkmen or Uzbek ensi. Older than most of this type. Large scale with bold yet unabbreviated drawing. Great ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete Baluch Khorjin set. Green ground bag faces with lustrous wool and luminous color. ( i can't take a decent photo to ... read more
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Caucasian Kazak rug with a very abstracted classical medallion

  • Very dynamic 'cloudband Bashir' Central Asian Turkmen carpet. Former Jim Dixon collection. Fantastic color which is not conveyed well in these images ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Very Old Central Asian / Uzbek main carpet with crosses in octagons. Great saturated and diverse color with an amazing border of ... read more
    price:  High contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very long Baluch pile trapping of some sort. Looks almost like a balisht on growth hormones. Classic Baluch leaf design on a ... read more
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Dokhtar-i Qazi prayer rug published in Hali 53, exhibited in the 1990 icoc.
    price:  SOLD

  • Unusual tree variant Baluch camel ground prayer rug (one of about half a dozen known examples)
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Pair of small Yomud torbas complete with original backs, chords, and tassels. All natural color. Excellent condition!
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Elongated Yomud asmalyk with mixed cotton and wool weft and interesting almost 'ying yang' drawing at the top of the central point.
    price:  $750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch Timuri type prayer rug with a very rare rendition of abstracted geometric repeating shrubs. Leaves if light blue at the top, ... read more
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  • Zig-zaggy diamond Baluch with fantastic blue
    price:  $1250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Joft-knotted Khorosan / Herat minakhani fragment, circa 1800 or a little earlier, cotton warp, wool weft group, fantastic drawing and color. It ... read more
    price:  $650

  • Art Deco Chinese rug with foliage and butterflies. 3'8"x5'10"
    price:  $350 +shipping

  • Very graphic camel ground Baluch rug with unusual geometric botehs arranged in a subtle but sophisticated repeat, creating diagonal negative space that ... read more
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete Baluch khorjin with a very unusual design integrating minakhani flowers with a central Memling medallion. All good colors and in good ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch double-sided sumak salt bag with a design seemingly derived from a Turkmen tentband, one side more worn than the other, still ... read more
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  • Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish
    price:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin with aubergine. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations ... read more
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Worn and whipped and very rare red-ground Timuri type Baluch rug with a Saryk border. Madder red ground with cochineal highlights. Squarish ... read more
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Elegant small Baluch sofreh with an abstract tree floating against a camel ground. Great color and graphic cohesion. Wonderful use of all ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Complete Baluch khorjin set, snowflake / blossom design. One of the oldest complete Baluch saddle bags I've ever seen, if not the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Masculine Sevan? Kazak, worn but actually quite a nice antique rug with personality, color, and a nice handle. 4'4"x7'4"
    price:  SOLD

  • Multi flatweave technique complete Baluch salt bag. Uncommon leaf design sometimes found on Baluch pile ghurbaghe rugs, beautiful colorful striped back.
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch multi-flatweave technique salt bag with a particularly finely rendered striped weft brocaded field. Not common, a good thing.
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Baluch flatwoven salt bag
    price:  $250

  • Complete sumak khorjin double saddle bag set. Diverse color with a little bit of an orange that seems iffy.
    price:  $1200 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • East Anatolian Kurd long pile fluffy rug on a striped kilim. Not sure what these are called but this is a good ... read more
    price:  $4,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Yomut / Karadashli main carpet with tauk-nuska guls. Fantastic Elena, particularly at the top, great condition. 165x265cm
    price:  $9,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Large Baluch complete bag with octagon star in square middle. Super glossy wool, floppy handle, and complete flatwoven back still attached. Recently ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • early 'vase carpet-esque' Josheghan fragment strip including borders and field.
    price:  SOLD

  • Tall camel ground Baluch prayer rugs with copious silk highlights, some damage at the top, beautiful flatwoven ends which have been reattached. ... read more
    price:  $350... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Crisply drawn Camel Ground Baluch Prayer Rug with elongated stylized hands, depressed warp Khorosan type. Dated Baluch prayer rug, a piece from ... read more
    price:  $1200 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Squarish shaped camel ground Baluch prayer rug, probably Zabol area, Sistan and Baluchistan, Southeast Persia, nice thing, 2'8"x3'4"
    price:  $450 contact... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tekke ensi fragment with good age and some very interesting features.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Kirghiz fragment found in Tibet, older than any Kirghiz piece I've seen with an ancient aesthetic. ... It appears to be quite ... read more
    price:  more than most sane people would pay... a lot... approaching ransom

  • Tekke Turkmen tent band fragment. Nice narrow one, 8.5"x75".
    price:  $850