Ben Banayan

Turkmen Torba with Memling guls. Seems somewhere between Ersari and something Eagle, fine weave, great wool and dyes. asymmetrical knot open right, ... read more

Central Anatolian rug with superior color.

Single-wefted minakhani Baluch bag in paradoxical condition. An old example with several blues, complete back and great flat-woven top but with a ... read more

Central Anatolian kilim fragment. long strip with great colors on a white ground. Mounted and conserved.

Central Asian Middle Amu Darya Area or Ersari Chuval with an ikat pattern. Crazy drawing with a lot of asymmetry, good color ... read more

Northwest Persian Kurdish rug. Camel ground with intriguing colors. Serab-esque but better.

Small format Bergama area Turkish rug. Squarish shape and nicely drawn with good color. About 38"×42". Worn but very readable. Two-tones of ... read more

Baluch bag with quartered design of eight-pointed stars. Great color and wool. One of the best renditions of the type.

Turkmen Yomut Chuval, worn but much more interesting than most of the type. fine weave, precision detailing and great color saturation. Very ... read more

Ersari Trapping, great vibrant madder red. The top row of ornament is drawn on a smaller scale while the bottom is larger-scale ... read more

Chinese textile fragment. Ming dynasty, Wanli period?

Baluch octagon star bag, not just more of the same. An older example with individuating features and an idiosyncratic cinnamon hue to ... read more

Baluch camel-ground prayer rug, excellent stylized trees, great hand panels, soft Baluchi wool with natural abrash in the camel, saturated natural ... read more

Chinese silk and metal thread textile with fantastic dragons, Ming dynasty. Cut and shaped to adorn a statue most likely within a ... read more

Chinese Textile Fragment with Bands of Striding Lions, warp-faced brocade, 3rd-5th century, Jin Dynasty 晉朝 or Northern Wei Dynasty 北魏 .

Ersari torba with a Central Asian floral ikat design, rich colors.

Northwest Persian Kurd rug with Memling guls, animals and flowers on a dark ground. Camel ground border with good color including several ... read more

Baluch bagface with a solitary white Memling gul, mixed snow-flakes and Memlings in a lattice. Fantastic Baluchi wool. All natural dyes with ... read more

Tekke Turkmen Small Main Carpet or Large Mat with Torba-Guls. Exceptional velvet-like wool, large well-drawn guls, great handle. There is an abrash ... read more

Old Tekke Main Carpet fragment. Old, lush and supple with a velvety buttery feel. Fantastic drape and saturated color.

Northwest Persian Shahsevan pile fragment with a large polka-dotted quadrupedal animal, birds, trees, and a somewhat anatomically correct human male figure. Excellent ... read more

Shahsevan? Luri? bagface with great color and graphic appeal. haven't seen anything quite like this but it is quite attractive. It seems ... read more

Yomud Tauk Nuska Main Carpet, saturated color, good spacing, super diamond minors with pearl ornament, salt and pepper back, cut and shut.