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  • Tekke Turkmen tent band fragments. Very nice color, a little bit of silk. Available as a pair or individualy. Size= 8.5"x68" each
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  • Classical Caucasian Kuba blossom carpet fragment. Great color, drawing, and structure. 2'2"x 3'7"
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  • 寧夏地毯用起重機,寶座回來,18世紀. 非常柔軟的羊毛! 良好的條件 Chinese Ningxia throne-back with a double crane roundel surrounded by clouds. Great imagery,likely 18th century type with remarkable wool and great ... read more
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  • Ersari torba, dynamic drawing and nice colors with a few highlight knots of cochineal silk. Looks like it was made into ... read more
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  • Baluch balisht with radiant reds and glossy wool. Silk highlights in the flatwoven ends. Cochineal used as abrash in the central geometric ... read more
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  • Central Anatolian Konya / Cappadocia rug with colorful Memling guls
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  • Older Afshar bagface with a supple handle, fine weave and great saturated dyes. 2'8"x1'7"
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  • 17th / 18th century Chinese (Gansu or East Turkestan) pile carpet fragment with a classic Ming lotus and peonies vine-scroll design made ... read more
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  • Large Sistan Baluch khorjin (bagface). Very graphic with saturated natural dyes including aubergine and several green-blue hues.
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  • Six Gul Tekke Torba, a great honest earlier example with velvety pile, great wool quality, and color. Obvious condition issues.
    price:  SOLD > thanks!

  • Central Anatolian long rug. Fragmented and mounted. Perhaps Karapinar or Konya. Great color and wool.
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  • Antique Baluch Rug with rosettes in a lattice. All narural colors. 89x 152 cm(35''x60'' inches)
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  • Baluch bagface, very fine weave, floppy handle, silk highlights (dyed with faded fuchsine) 1'10"x1'10"
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  • small Ottoman embroidery. Probably Thrace, 19th century.
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  • small camel-ground Baluch prayer rug with nice spacing and great stylized hands. size= 2'8"x3'8"
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  • Minakhani fragment, late 18th century / circa 1800. Khorasan jufti knotted type a rare yellow ground. Worn but majestic. Size is 33'x75'
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  • Small camel-ground Baluch rug with zoomorphic looking botehs. Very cute piece with some damage but complete. size= 26"x37"
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  • Indian fragments, Mughal era but perhaps from a Decani Carpet, circa 1700 or earlier.
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  • Baluch balisht with great polychromatic blues, Timuri-esque Khorosan group with sort of a kepse/ashik type of design? nice older borders.
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  • small mounted fragment of a Northeast Persian Khorosan carpet. The bird seen on this piece is reminiscent of those seen on a ... read more
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  • white-ground Baluch balisht with a repeat 'comb' design. a strange blend of elegance and barbarism. This is a former Basha piece. There ... read more
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  • Tekke ensi with animal tree drawing and 2-1-2 candelabra. Old but problematic, fragmented and cut on the sides. Madder is depleted. Still ... read more
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  • 6th- 7th century silk warp-faced textile fragment in the 'International Style' depicting seated Central Asian or Iranian merchants within roundels ornamented with ... read more
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  • Super colorful Bashir Central Asian / Middle Amu Darya area carpet. older than most. Worn but more or less complete with an ... read more
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  • Yomut Turkmen chuval, Great age. Fantastic elem with evocative negative space. Uncommon border with some corrosive brown. Great color with an attractive ... read more
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  • Very uncommon Kizyl Ayak Turkmen main carpet fragment featuring large chuval-style guls with substantive silk highlights. 17"x24"
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  • Two more Ancient Carpet Fragment, 3rd - 6th century. Part of the same group of early pile carpet fragments seen in the ... read more
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  • Ancient Carpet Fragment, 3rd - 6th century. a similar fragment from perhaps the same rug is in the Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait along ... read more
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  • lush velvety Tekke Turkmen main carpet with rounded guls. fragmented at sides, missing a border.
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  • Tang Dynasty silk fragment with a large composite dragon in a pearl roundel. Central China, 8th century. An unusually rendered dragon perhaps ... read more
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  • Baluch shrub bagface with fiery ochre and polychromatic blues. Shrubs here are in a lattice. Glossy wool. All great vegetal dyes. 21"x19"
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  • Yomut Chuval, Former David Reuben piece published in 'Gols and Guls 2' as plate 35 with description reading... "Yomut Family Juval 72x125 (2'6"x4'1") ... read more
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  • Armenian? embroidery, Silk highlights with a crisp design. Very charming!
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  • Baluch Rug with hexagonal tile field pattern. Very soft and pliable blanket-like handle. Poly-chromatic blue and open drawing with an abstracted animal, ... read more
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  • Crazy Baluch octagon star bag with animals. Tribal khorjin from Khorosan with an eccentric take on a classic Baluchi type. Very colorful ... read more
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  • South Persian Bagface, super soft lustrous wool with a great handle. Shrubs in lattice design based on classic Garden Carpet design. The ... read more
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  • Sevan Kazak with plied white cotton weft or some sort of Moghan with a Sevan design. blasted but with fantastic color. Looks ... read more
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  • Huge Turkmen Chuval, probably Ersari but also perhaps on the Kizyl Ayak spectrum. This is a very large ultra meaga chuval, one ... read more
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  • Classic Kizyl Ayak Chuval with a blank elem. Tight weave, soft wool,floppy handle, glossy sheen. Published in Hali 148 'Kizil Ayak & ... read more
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  • Central Asian Middle Amu Darya Turkmen trapping or torba with an ikat derived 'aq waymaq' design. 4'8"x1'4"
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  • Baluch Harshang Design Main Carpet with Birds. woven in western Afghanistan with great natural color and very soft wool. browns are largely ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug with Memling Guls. Probably 18th century with a rich, diverse and moody color palette, exceptional wool and ... read more
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  • Two fragments of an exceptional 18th century blue-ground Bergama area rug with a curled tendril palmette border. Each approximately 2'6"x2'6".
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  • East Anatolian rug fragment, very fine weave and saturated natural color. An exceptionally elegant but battered older example of an iconic type.
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  • Kuba pile rug with a harshang palmette design more typically seen in sumak rugs. Great color and design.
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  • Central Anatolian Memling gul rug fragment, very nice colors.
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  • Camel-Ground Baluch Tree Rug with a central classic type Baluchi tree flanked by two more geometric tree forms and interspersed with a ... read more
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  • " Timuri " type Baluch prayer rug with a rare pointed mihrab niche flanked by animals. a very unusual Baluchi. Restoration to ... read more
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