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  • 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
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  • Antique East Anatolian Kurdish Fragment. crisp drawing and all natural colors. The majority of the flatwoven brocade ends at the top are ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Large 18th century Ushak Prayer Rug, conserved and partially mounted, 4'7"x5'6" /140x168cm
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  • East Anatolian Rug with Transylvanian Border. Great graphics, 3 medallions nicely drawn with an assortment of scorpions. Good colors with an unusual ... read more
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  • Kula type rug, (or at least it appears so at first glance) Intensely saturated colors including two yellows, at least three blues ... read more
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  • 19th cen. Tibetan ' Wangden ' 'warp-back' square with Dorje Tantric thunderbolts making a quatrafoil in the center. Two greens. The pile ... read more
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  • Chinese Ningxia Square with Fret Dragons and Lotus Border on a yellow ground. 71x72cm / apx. 28"x28"
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  • Antique Caucasian Memling Gul Rug. Fantastically smashed but...
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  • 18th century Khorossan fragment with highly stylized vegetal leaves, flowers and strong East Persian minakhani references. Very finely woven, more remarkably so ... read more
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  • 17th Century Indo-Esfahan Fragment with several greens and lac. 2'6"x3'7" / 76x109cm
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  • East Anatolian Rug Fragment with vibrant color.
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  • 2 Fragments of an Unusual Anatolian Rug with Stars.
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  • Shahsevan Sumak Bagface with a Leshghi Star Design, Old, Colorful, Thin, Beautiful. Difficult to accurately photograph. a small bit of silver thread ... read more
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  • Truly Tribal, Authentically Antique Kirghiz Main Carpet. Three compartments of eshik-tish staffs. single wefted, all natural colors including madder red, insect / ... read more
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  • Unusual small Chinese rug with auspicious bats and flower pots. Uncommon use of madder red and un-dyed brown wool pile. cotton foundation. ... read more
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  • Very long antique Reyhanli kilim from Eastern Anatolia. Older than most with a very good color range and saturation including a great ... read more
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  • Ersari Main Carpet with Guli-Guls. Quirky drawing of field elements, good reciprocal spaces and nice colors including two different slate or olive ... read more
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  • Turkish eye-dazzler Kilim, perhaps western Anatolian or Monastir. Complete piece with purple, green, two oranges, red and yellow. (46"x82" 117x208cm)
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  • 18th century Ningxia Throne-Back Fragment. Exceptionally elegant both in drawing and construction. Fret-dragons are drawn both in the border and field. Great ... read more
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  • Central Anatolian Rug Fragment, circa 1800, with vibrant and multiple colors. Bold geometry and exceptional proportions. (5'3" x 3'1" / 160x94cm)
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  • Tekke Chuval, trees in the elem, very red, fine weave, needs a wash, still a little smoked, some damage and tear near ... read more
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  • Colorful and very old fragment of a flat-woven East Anatolian chuval with well-drawn Memling guls and kilim stripes.
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  • Arab? Baluch Rug . asymmetrical knot open right but with 4-chord goat selvedge. Running dog minor borders and other features of Khorossan ... read more
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  • 2 Baluch square middle star bags. The top piece is quite old. The bottom piece is younger but still antique.
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  • East Anatolian Fragmented Rug, red weft, fine weave, exceptionally saturated color including aubergine, and a brilliant red. Not your usual "yoruk".
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  • Anatolian Fragment,
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  • 18th century Star Bergama Fragments, 2/3 of the rug, (i don't know why it was cut or where the final third is.) ... read more
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  • Very Soft Tekke Ensi, good colors, classic drawing with exceptionally good wool.
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  • Smyrna small format carpet, probably 18th century, obvious damage, mounted on brown textile. Big knots, depressed warp, subtle color with two yellows ... read more
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  • Shahsevan Pile Mafrash Panel, good colors
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug, Crazy Colors, not for the conditionally challenged
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  • Super Purple Kilim-Design Anatolian Pile Fragment. Old and wonderful with top color. (size is about 4'0"x3'4".) This piece is mounted and conserved ... read more
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  • Malatya chuval with wonderful colours.. 90 x 52cm. 19th c.
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  • Central Anatolian ( Mucur / Kirshehir ) Striped Rug Fragment with exceptional color. Great purple, greens, light blue, madder red, yellow, etc.
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  • Exceptional multi-medallion long Demerci Kula Fragment (about 65% of the original rug) circa 1776. Inscribed multiple times with "mashallah". Very soft pile ... read more
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  • Arabachi Ensi with Animal Train Elem
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  • Shahsevan Sumak end panel. Nice color range including purple, green and yellow, 2 blues etc. Drawing is particularly good in the borders.
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  • Persian Silk Velvet Ikat Fragments, very antique with at least four insect reds, green, yellow on a cotton foundation (sizes= 22"x23" and ... read more
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  • Pair of Small Chinese Ningxia Squares with Roundels. Almost dainty, nicely drawn with two blues. Warp is hand-spun cotton. Weft is a ... read more
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  • Very nice, old kizil ayak chuval with great color, velvety wool, fine weave, floppy handle. Sides slightly compromised, and some old repair ... read more
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  • 17th/early 18th c. Ottoman Turkish velvet yastik (with many condition issues)
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  • 18th century Chinese Seating Square with Mirror-Back Shaped Medallion Lotus Center. Dorje and Arabesque Corners. Color is very good with salmon-pink and ... read more
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  • Chinese Ningxia Dragon Seating Square, probably 18th cen. Qianlong period. rough condition and could use a wash but very compelling drawing. (size ... read more
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  • Afshar Bagface, better than most (older than most, more colorful, softer and very pliable, deceptively sophisticated composition) all wool foundation, small rip ... read more
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  • Chinese Ningxia Fu Dog Throne Back. Good older example with traces of Indian block-printed textile around the sides. (21 inches tall by ... read more
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  • Tibetan Dragon Fragment, very finely drawn with analine dyes and indigo. early 20th cen.
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  • Mongolian Rug, Camel and Dark Brown un-dyed animal wool on a very light blue ground. (There is no white.) Warp is very ... read more
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