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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Shahsevan Pile Mafrash Panel, good colors
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug, Crazy Colors, not for the conditionally challenged
    price:  SOLD

  • 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.
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Anatolian ( Mucur / Kirshehir ) Striped Rug Fragment with exceptional color. Great purple, greens, light blue, madder red, yellow, etc.
    price:  SOLD

  • 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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  • Chinese Ningxia throne back with dragons. This piece has been lined with some red velvet and the crenelations around the top have ... read more
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  • Chinese Rug with Dragon coiled around magic mountain reaching into the clouds. Fantastic iconography with clouds and phallic mountain jetting out of ... read more
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  • Ersari or Kizyl Ayak Ensi, Very soft wool, interesting drawing, natural colors. Field madder color seems slightly corrosive, browns are un-dyed wool. ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug, fluffy pile, big knots, vibrant madder red, non-sulphonic natural green and blue. Nice variation on the Memling gul ... read more
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  • Baluch Star Octagon Bag, certainly better than average, good age. Conserved and stabilized as can be seen from back photo.
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug, Great Colors, especially the purple ground, Great Wool, blue wefted with traces of brocaded ends at the bottom. ... read more
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  • SOLD Colorful Kurd Saj Bulach with a white border. Good range of colors including, purple, 2-3 blues, 2 greens, pink, red, yellow, ... read more


  • Ghirlandaio Variant Bergama / Ezine West Anatolain Rug, whipped but rather classic looking.
    price:  SOLD

  • Yomut Turkmen Chuval, Bold, beautifully drawn guls, delicate minors, symmetrically knotted with wool and cotton wefting. Great handle and back. some condition
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  • 18th Century Ottoman Fragment, West Anatolia Kiz Ghiordes / Selendi with a flayed pelt field and medallion. Areas of wear especially at ... read more
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  • 17th century Yellow-Ground Classical Fragment with Magnificent Flowering Plants. most likely Indian or Safavid Eastern Persian. (52"x44" / 132x112cm) There is obvious ... read more
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  • Tekke Square Mat, large guls, great elem, intriguing borders, fine handle, very old. (4'1"x4'2" 123x125cm)
    price:  SOLD

  • Safavid Persian Silk and Velvet Pastiche made from four different 17th century textiles. Former mfa, Boston piece, reasonably priced. (52x53cm)
    price:  SOLD

  • Caucasian Blossom Carpet Fragment circa 1700 (2' x 1'1")
    price:  SOLD

  • Anatolian Yatak . old, bold, graphic, backed and conserved. 58"x73"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch white-ground rug with scorpion-like botehs and smaller botehs
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  • Safavid Persian silk and metal thread textile. Former mfa, Boston piece.
    price:  SOLD

  • Tekke Ensi, some silk highlights, interesting sainak formation, area of repair in bottom left border. Flashy color including a light blue and ... read more
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  • Chodor Turkmen embroidered silk sleeve
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  • Kerman Vase Carpet Fragment
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  • Old Kuba Rug
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  • Large Central Asian Middle Amu Darya Chuval
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  • Baluch Minakhani Bagface, just about perfect condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • 19th century Uzbek or Lakai Needlepoint Belt with a Saryk border design. (49" / 124cm)
    price:  SOLD

  • Colorful Moghan Rug with Memling guls (detail)
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Ikat fragment
    price:  SOLD

  • Ladik Medallion Rug, fragmented and mounted, deep color saturation.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Prayer Rug, some would say Timuri, good age and color with appropriate wear. 52"x42"
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  • Small Turkmen Silk Pouch with what looks like the depiction of a frog in green. The back is rather nice too. Complete ... read more
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  • Tekke Turkmen embroidered band. Very fine. Very colorful with several blues, yellow, orange and insect red. Embroidered on a hand-woven green silk.
    price:  SOLD