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  • Tekke Turkmen embroidered strip on a deep indigo ground. Bold design accomplished with a very fine technique. 111x10cm
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  • Small Turkmen Animal Ornament, embroidered with an interesting (perhaps coincidental) rendition of a Memling gul.
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  • small Turkmen embroidered pouch. Probably Chodor or Yomut.
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  • Chodor Turkmen embroidered head ornament. Silk floss on wool.
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  • Ottoman style Algerian embroidery fragment circa 1800 or perhaps 18th century. Great color including a double dyed purple.
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  • Central Asian Kyrgyz Shyrdak square. Madder red and indigo blue dyed and pieced felt.
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  • Central Anatolian Karaman Medallion carpet incorporating many Northwest Persian Safavid models.
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  • Antique Baluch Saddle with Birds. Not ancient but all natural colors including a deep plum ground with very soft and lush wool ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Striped Kilim Chuval with central bands of sumak. Excellent almost Andean-like handle. 5'3"x3' 160x91cm
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  • Central Anatolian Prayer Rug Fragment circa 1800 SOLD
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    This is a very colorful fragmentary piece of what must have been a ... read more


  • Middle Amu Darya Turkmen Gul Rug Fragment SOLD
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    Fantastic yellow and green. This is from what must have been a great ... read more


  • Small Old Tekke fragment SOLD
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    Probably from a main carpet or perhaps a torba. Large nicely drawn torba guls with great ... read more


  • Very Rare, Very Old Complete Khorosan Quchan Kurd? ( or perhaps Khorosan Afshar ? )Double Saddle Bags (Khorjin). Bagfaces are done in ... read more
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  • Tekke Long Rug, All colors are good, wool is soft and there are some silk highlights. Complete but with areas of wear ... read more
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  • Old Sumak with a double eagle and stars center
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  • Anatolian Kilim Fragment with particularly pleasing purples. Central Anatolia, circa 1800 (2'8"x4'10") 81x147cm. All Colors Are Excellent.
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  • Luscious Arab Baluch Rug with Floating Chemches. Saturated soft wool with all natural colors. Good color shift from vibrant madder red to ... read more
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  • Shahsavan Interpretation of the Pazaryk Carpet? Wool pile on a mostly cotton (hand-spun) foundation. All natural colors. Bold. Fascinating.
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  • Turkmen Chuval. Perhaps Ersari, but open left. White warps, Soft floppy handle, good color, nice negative space between the guls. Some split ... read more
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  • Camel-Ground Baluch rug . Perhaps Bahluli according to recent research. (see the current issue of Hali) Colorful latch-hook border (interestingly, there are ... read more
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  • Super Veramin Bagface with a pair of chuval guls. Nice format, great condition. 41"x17" (105x44cm)
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  • Central Asian Main Carpet with large guls. Some features resemble Turkmen weavings from the Middle Amu Darya region but the construction of ... read more
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  • Minakhani Baluch Rug, Depressed warp Khorossan type. Very finely drawn with vivid color and finer than most of this genre. The skirts ... read more
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  • Miniature Minimalist South Persian Kilim with a natural abrashed camel ground and pistachio green border. Perhaps a small sofreh, cover or bread ... read more
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  • Anatolian Kilim Half, many colors, much wear, cotton and wool white, 4 browns (dyed and natural) madder reds, insect red, 2 pinks, ... read more
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  • Smashed but Fantastic Anatolian Prayer Rug. Mudjur / Kirshehir type with super-saturated colors including vibrant red and blue, true aubergine, two greens ... read more
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  • Yomut Turkmen Kepse Gul Main Carpet with a Boat Border (fantastically drawn). Great color, soft wool, dirt, hole, moth-damage, stains. kilim (which ... read more
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  • Middle Amu Darya / Bashir Chuval . Ikat with Blossoms. 5'1" x 3'. Generally good condition with some scattered wear. sides have ... read more
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  • Kizyl Ayak or Choob Bash Turkmen Main Carpet. Small format with compartments and Ertmen gul variants. Nicely drawn animal protomes in several ... read more
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  • Mystery Rug Fragment, a sub-group from the so-called 'Golden Triangle' area group of rugs most frequently found in Tibet. Perhaps a 17th ... read more
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  • Large Central Asian Chuval. Probably not Turkmen. a similar piece in the Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg has been described by Elena ... read more
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  • Enigmatic Baluch weaving. Probably a Poshti but perhaps some other sort of bag or bridge. It is symmetrically knotted using a ... read more
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  • Ersari / Bashir Minakhani torba fragment. Great wool and colors with use of yellow and greens. (The Reds are more vibrant in ... read more
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  • Baluch minakhani bagface ( khorjin fragment ) with saturated color and interesting features for the structurally inclined including alternating bands of Turkish ... read more
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  • Small Yomut 7-sided Asmalyk. Good condition, All natural colors but with a faded yellow that seems stronger on the back. (25" x16")
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  • Fragment of an old and great Yomud kepse gul carpet with rich color including super saturated green and blue-green. Great handle, ... read more
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  • 'Arab Baluch' Bagface from Khorossan. 19th century. Former Anne Halley Collection piece. asymmetrical knots open right with highlights in purple and green ... read more
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  • Esoteric, Eccentric and Fantastic Central Asian Amu Darya area fragment. Superlative color with some yellow chemcheh minors, a few Memling minors (blue ... read more
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  • Afshar bagface with great knot/rosette design. Very graphic with good color and good condition. ( 27" x 32")
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  • Tibetan saddle top with an insect red or madder ground. Nice ashik-looking quatrefoil medallion and vegetal border. All natural colors. Sometime in ... read more
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  • Cute Northwest Persian Kurdish Shrub Rug with little animals in the field. Clear colors including purple, greens, yellow and blue. 6'10" x ... read more
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  • Tekke Ensi. Better than average. Not an animal tree but as good as (or better than) many of that type. Exceptionally well ... read more
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  • Moghan with Memling Guls, First Half 19th century, great color including at least two reds, three blues, purple, etc. cotton in the ... read more
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  • 18th century Chinese square with a yin-yang centered eight-petalled lotus
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish fragment with Memling guls. Blue wefted circa 1880. Part of the missing side border has been attached to form ... read more
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  • nw Persian Kurdish bagface with great color and a lot of wear
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  • Caucasian reverse sumak mafrash panel with very nice colors (For a very closely related example see 'Oriental Rugs from Pacific Collections' pl. ... read more
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  • Blitzed but very Beautiful and unusual old South Persian tribal rug. Great colors, graphics and soft lustrous wool. Condition is... ummm... un-restored. ... read more
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