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Gallery 51 specializing in collectible rugs and fine antique textile art .The focus at Gallery 51 is on the appreciation, conservation, and collection of fine, antique textile art and antique oriental rugs. With more than twenty years experience as a private purveyor of rare textiles, Craig Wallen offers both residential and commercial customers, as well as sophisticated collectors, a wide selection of visually compelling textiles for use in home or office settings., Antique tribal carpets and weavings from the Middle East and Central Asia form the bulk of our inventory, although ancient Coptic, Islamic, pre-Columbian, African, Native American, and other ethnographic textiles are also offered. Services include: buying and selling, consultation, appraisal, brokerage, mounting, and collection management. Please phone/email with queries, or stop into the gallery (open Tues - Sun, 11 - 6), located in historic Old City Philadelphia, for a first hand look. www.gallery51.net

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New Year wish for 2024....
price:  priceless
Best Wishes to all, no matter what holiday you celebrate, and for the New Year, which is just around the corner! Cheers! ... read more
Early copper basin, thought to be Central Asian, c. 15/16th c
Yomud juval, full pile, luminous wool and color
Swedish cushion cover, c. 1800, but possibly earlier
Caucasian Verneh, 19th c., excellent original condition, approx. 5 x 8
price:  please ask
happy new year !!! Wishing good Health, Happiness & Success to all!
price:  priceless
Ottoman qalamdan, Bronze, inscribed, 11.5" l x 3" h, 18th/early 19th c. a super example.
Coptic roundel, Egypt, wool and linen, 5 - 800 ad. (image not appearing correctly - sorry! just rotate 1/4 turn to ... read more
Anatolian fragments from the Samy Rabinovic Collection On display and available through December 31, 2021 at Gallery 51 51 n 2nd St Philadelphia pa ... read more
Proto-Nazca knitted faces and figures, 11.5" l., mounted, in lucite display case
Coptic fragment with lovebirds....approx. 4" x 4"
Konya kilim, mounted on linen. 48" x 83". Soft colors. Nice old purple, soft green, pale yellow. Can be removed from ... read more
Small camelhair Serab, 21.5" x 52", losses at one end...but full pile, great color, recently washed
price:  POR
Hookah base, brass, Syrian (Mamluk revival)...19th c
Small Coptic portrait roundel, Green tunic, red hat ! Charming! 3" x 3"
price:  $475.
Swedish woven runner, Malmo, early 19th c. wool
Tiny Coptic fragment with a pair of lovebirds, approx 4" x 4"
e. Anatolian divan cover, fragments....18th Cearly 19th c.
Early Bergama fragment, possibly of a yatak, 18th c.
Ottoman tankard, tinned copper, carnations, cypress trees, 18th c or perhaps earlier...
price:  B/O
Hand wrought buckle, i think it is made of silver, old, Afghani? Indian?, 7" l - heavy and heavily tarnished
price:  $475.
Three early maps Middle East, Persia, Central Asia....two by Robert Morden, 1686, and one more....1711.
price:  $185 ea/$450 all
Coptic fragment with good colors....
price:  $275.
This is a 'turbah' cloth - not a turban cloth! There is a difference! Old 'turbah' cloth....Afghanistan, most likely, and ... read more
price:  375.
Antique Turkish prayer rug...Kirshehir? Outstanding purple!
Long, narrow Coptic textile fragment with well defined figure and spotted animal....great color.
price:  SOLD! Thank you.
Best Wishes to All for a Merry Xmas (if that's your thing) and a very happy, healthy, peaceful and prosperous New Year! ... read more
Pair of Asiyut Egyptian shawls, cotton and hammered metal, probably late 19th/early 20th c.
Two ends of a long Mujur runner w/ good age, great graphics and all original condition.