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    Small camel ground Baluch rug with stylized pallettes. Very fancy with highlights in white cotton pile, yellow wool pile (not camel), and ... read more
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    Afshar bagface with an unusual field and a floral border, all wool, 2'6"x1'11"
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    price:  $400 US domestic

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    Ottoman era Greek embroidery fragment. Epirus, 18th / 19th century.
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    price:  SOLD

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    Jaf Kurd bagface, 24"x21, soft lustrous wool and saturated color with a single white elongated diamond in the center. There is a ... read more
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    price:  $350

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    The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
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    price:  MISSING

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    The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
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    price:  MISSING

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    Konya yastik with a variant of a Holbein gul, front and back images. Condition is a little rough with some kashmiring of ... read more
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    price:  SOLD

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    East Anatolian Kurdish rug fragment. Super vibrant madder. mounted and conserved.
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    price:  $1500

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    Ladik Prayer Rug with Double-Columns as well as Double Spandrels. Rare and beautiful white ground and exceptional aubergine and red spandrels. circa ... read more
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    price:  $3000

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

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    Rabat Moroccan gallery rug, all natural colors, mid 19th. century?
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    price:  POR

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    Antique Greek embroidery, probably Salonica / Thessaloniki
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    Large (5'1" x 8'3" 155x252cm) East Anatolian Yatak with harshang and other ornament (alien cyclopses?)
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    price:  SOLD

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    Bergama area Anatolian Turkish rug, an early rendition of this uncommon type with saturated color and open drawing, silk knots in the ... read more
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    Tekke Turkmen main carpet, apx 8'x12'
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    price:  $1800

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    corner fragment from a so-called 'Tibetan Group' or 'Golden Triangle' rug. Woven in the Northwest Persia/ Eastern Anatolia border region sometime around ... read more
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    Isfahan Carpet, Safavid era, first half 17th century, silk and cotton warp, cotton weft, lac red ground, fine weave, cut and shut, ... read more
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    Konya rug fragment, circa 1800 or perhaps earlier? Excellent aubergine.
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    price:  $500

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    An early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan pastiche carpet, reduced in length. Safavid era, circa 1600. a later version of this ... read more
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    Larger Baluch octagon and star type bagface, super soft with at least 4 blues.
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    price:  SOLD

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    Baluch minakhani rug, decent condition, great color, 3'9"x6'4"
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    price:  SOLD

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    Baluch boteh design bagface, very luxurious with super soft wool, a fine weave, and intricate flatwoven fasteners. small repair in left bottom
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    price:  SOLD THX

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    Zeichur Kuba rug with ultimate color. Older than most (all?) Thin and delicate handle. 3'4"x6'2"
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    price:  SOLD

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    Large Baluch star octagon bag. Great wool and handle.
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    price:  SOLD

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    Small Jaf Kurd bagface, 1'10"x1'2" with staggered knotting
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    Armenian inscribed Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari rug, all natural dyes. Inscription reads 'Bartholomew i, the Benevolent and dated 1924.
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    price:  SOLD

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    Vivid Saturated Color. Two matching fragments of an Anatolian Yatak, mounted together and conserved. multicolored carnations on a golden-saffron abrashed ground, perfect ... read more
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    price:  SOLD

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    20 Christie's London Islamic art catalogs. All in great condition
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    price:  $100 for all or $10 each +post

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    Hali Magazine, multiple back issues in great condition available from number 53 through more current issues. Excellent rug reference material. All in ... read more
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    price:  $15 each, discount for multiples

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    Ersari? Turkmen Guli-Gul Main Carpet. Wear is pretty much as it appears in the images. One side has significant loss to the ... read more
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    price:  $550 plus shipping OBO

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    Timuri type Baluch rug with a central Turkmen gul and wonderful ornament. Yes, there is aniline in this one. There is also ... read more
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    Fine old Baluch minakhani rug, very flat back and a great floppy handle, nice abrash, 3'1"x4'10"
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    price:  SOLD

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    Rustic camel wool Baluch with asmalyk derived design. Warp 8s a mix of dark animal hair and wool. Very soft longer pile. ... read more
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    Striped Baluch balisht with purple and green. Probably western Afghanistan, I'm sceptical about the orange, it doesn't look tippy and is rather ... read more
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    Para Mamluk' star Afshar bagface, slate green field and heightened drawing.
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    Mudjur (Mucur) or possibly Konya prayer rug. Big knots, lots of colors, all vegetal dyes with no sulfonic. 3 shades of aubergine ... read more
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    price:  SOLD

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    6 gul Tekke torba
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    price:  SOLD

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    Small 19th century Bergama prayer rug, soft wool, generally intact with some old repair at the top left corner and middle right ... read more
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    price:  SOLD, thanks

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    Ancient minakhani Baluch rug. (price not commensurate with condition)
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    price:  SOLD

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    Detail from an early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan carpet. Safavid era, circa 1600.
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    price:  POR

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    Safavid Persian silk sleeve with shrubs and silver metallic clouds, mounted and conserved.
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    price:  POR

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    Northwest Persian flatwoven bag. Probably Kurdish. Not quite ' reverse sumak '. One side is flat while the other is more textured. ... read more
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    price:  $495

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    Interesting Senneh or related west Persian bagface with Qajar soldiers bearing swords and birds in the corners, nice wool and saturated natural ... read more
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    price:  $550

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    Caucasian blossom carpet fragment, circa 1700, 57x123cm
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    price:  SOLD

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    Baluch rug with super glossy soft wool. Drawn with no main border only a guard. kilim largely preserved, great condition!
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    price:  SOLD

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    Northwest Persian Kurdish runner fragment with flowering shrubs on a gold ground, very nice color. 2'8"x6'8".
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    Salor Turkmen chuval, asymmetric knot open left, classic Salor depressed weave and iconic drawing but young enough to use azo dye. Still ... read more
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    Jaf Kurd bagface with unusual tucked diamond design
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    price:  SOLD