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  • Fine Antique Baluch Rug, Great scale and drawing with several dark blues and practically sculptural corrosion to the browns. Khorosan variety an ... read more
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  • South Persian Tribal Luri bagface, Fantastic wool and super-saturated natural color, two greens. There is even some natural camel wool pile. Mounted ... read more
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  • Twelve Gul Tekke Torba, fine weave and velvety handle, very nice drawing with a different more complex variety of gul rendered across ... read more
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  • Northwest Persian Rug, Kurdish or maybe Shahsevan? Memling gul design on camel ground with great colors. The whites towards the bottom are ... read more
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  • Ersari or some other Middle Amu Darya area Turkmen rug with an ikat derived design. Former David Rueben piece published in "Gols ... read more
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  • These fragments are the two elem panels of what must have been a great and early Abdal, Yomut sub-group main carpet. ... read more
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  • Chodor Turkmen Chuval, Ertmen guls, dynamically drawn with particularly well rendered bird heads. Good range of colors including at least three blues ... read more
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  • Tekke aina gul chuval, very elegant with at least two distinct shades of insect red, cochineal and perhaps lac? or two cochineals?, ... read more
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  • Jaf Kurd Bagface, 3'3"x 2'2"
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  • Saryk 6 Gul Torba with silk and cotton highlights
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  • a colorful Turkmen Aksu torba? Indeed so! This early eastern Turkmen torba fragment has great scale and precisely rendered drawing illustrated with ... read more
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  • Older Arabachie Chuval, vibrant natural color and soft glossy wool with a great handle. Characteristic cotton and camel wool weft. cut and ... read more
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  • 17th century Caucasian Border Fragment representing a cartouche type originating from classical Northwest Persian examples. This piece was sold at Sotheby's New ... read more
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  • An exceptional 16th/ 17th century Western Anatolian fragment woven with an adept mastery of design and color. This piece represents an ... read more
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  • Very Fine Ersari or some other sort of Eastern Turkmen rug, lots of silk and a great vibrant madder red reminiscent of ... read more
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  • small Camel Ground Baluch Prayer Rug, elegant drawing and saturated colors. Complete with sides and ends. Probably from Northwest Afghanistan, it is ... read more
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  • Kizyl Ayak Chuval, several greens and prominent yellow, dyrnak gul minors, a couple of small holes that have been rewoven with kashmiring ... read more
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  • Banded Central Asian Chuval, all cotton whites, slightly different drawing and array of ornament than most others of this type. Saturated madder ... read more
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  • Chodor Chuval, large Turkmen bagface with large well-spaced chuval guls. Saturated madder-red abrash, greens, blue-greens, and slate blue.
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  • Tekke Chuval, Very nice drawing including an animal train at top, soft velvety handle. This piece once had great vibrant natural color ... read more
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  • With the format of a yastik and the general size and orientation of a prayer rug, this East Anatolian Kurd weaving seems ... read more
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  • Cloudband Bashir Carpet, fantastic color with several blues and green. Condition is good with a little scattered repair and repair the sides. ... read more
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  • Classic Timuri type Baluch Prayer Rug, excellently and finely drawn with trees and shrubs on a blue ground. Worn, especially at the ... read more
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  • Chinese Throne Back with water dragons that sort of look like giant prawns and even a fish. Very sculptural service with a ... read more
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  • Tekke Mafrash, fine weave nine guls with linked minors containing eight-pointed stars, 2'1"x1'1"
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  • Exceptionally graphic Turkmen tentband fragment, velvety pile, vivid natural color including a few silk highlights. There are two clean easily repairable rips, ... read more
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  • Yomut Turkmen Chuval, great vibrant natural color including some silk highlights in the centers of the bottom guls. Relatively complete with some ... read more
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  • Classic Chinese Ningxia Carpet with vine-scroll and peonies field. Likely Kangxi period, large, smashed, with rips, tears, and several generations of repiling. ... read more
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  • 6th century Chinese warp-faced silk textile with roundels featuring wine and Central Asians
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  • Old Caucasian or perhaps Northwest Persian fragment so-called " Golden Triangle " or " Tibetan Group " region with sylized cartouche ... read more
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  • Middle Amu Darya Turkmen Ersari? Banded Chuval. Great color including a double dyed aubergine and classic nine band drawing with trees, carnations, ... read more
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  • Fine Anatolian Kilim, large fragment with fantastic purples and greens, four blues, great color range, probably Konya area. size= 4'11"x6'10"
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  • Sweet White-Ground Chinese Ningxia Rug, blue peonies and arabesque with a minimal border. hand-spun cotton warp and weft. very soft wool pile. ... read more
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  • Small Sogdian Silk Samite Twill Textile Fragment. circa 8th century, secondary device with traces of two pearl-border roundels. good color preservation. apx.7"x8".
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  • Large Chinese Ningxia Throne back with dragons, probably Kangxi period. About a meter wide. sides complete with weft returns, perhaps two inches ... read more
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  • Two significant fragments of a Deccani Indian medallion carpet. Probably some time in the eighteenth century? The drawing is clearly inspired by ... read more
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  • Indian Deccani carpet fragment. Circa 1700? Design reminiscent of Mughal pieces. corroded lac ground and black border with characteristic mustard gold. Very ... read more
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  • Northwest Persian Kurdish panel with multi-colored large botehs and several subtle color shifts, very elegant, probably needs a wash but great wool. ... read more
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  • Jaf Kurd Bagface, with contrast and color. Subtle individuating drawing features including blue bottom corners and shifts and a central-ish white latch-hook ... read more
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  • Turkmen Chuval, probably an early sub-group of Yomut with great drawing including exceptional minor guls of a type more generally found in ... read more
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  • small fluffy Jaf Kurd Bagface. Great wool and subtle but sophisticated design features including border break and experimentation with color and abrash. ... read more
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  • Turkmen Yomud Ensi, super soft wool, saturated color with camel wool. finely woven with asymmetrical knot open right. portions of side and ... read more
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  • Found in Tibet in the 90s, this is one half of a significant village rendition of a medallion carpet produced somewhere in ... read more
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  • Yomut Turkmen Mafrash, petite piece with extra soft wool, asymmetrical knot open right, clearly articulated drawing with a multi-hued madder ground ... read more
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  • Baluch border-changing rug. Perhaps the weaver was just feeling playful? An elegant rug in very presentable condition. Well balanced drawing, subtle abrash ... read more
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  • Large Yomut Chuval with great drawing and spacing and a particularly nice tree elem.
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  • c. 11th century Islamic silk textile roundel with a bull and kufic writing. Saljuq era, Iran or Central Asia
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  • Caucasian pile bag with diagonal stripes
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