Ben Banayan

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.

Fine Antique Baluch Rug, Great scale and drawing with several dark blues and practically sculptural corrosion to the browns. Khorosan variety an ... read more

Twelve Gul Tekke Torba, fine weave and velvety handle, very nice drawing with a different more complex variety of gul rendered across ... read more

Ersari or some other Middle Amu Darya area Turkmen rug with an ikat derived design. Former David Rueben piece published in "Gols ... read more

Chodor Turkmen Chuval, Ertmen guls, dynamically drawn with particularly well rendered bird heads. Good range of colors including at least three blues ... read more

Jaf Kurd Bagface, 3'3"x 2'2"

a colorful Turkmen Aksu torba? Indeed so! This early eastern Turkmen torba fragment has great scale and precisely rendered drawing illustrated with ... read more

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

Very Fine Ersari or some other sort of Eastern Turkmen rug, lots of silk and a great vibrant madder red reminiscent of ... read more

Kizyl Ayak Chuval, several greens and prominent yellow, dyrnak gul minors, a couple of small holes that have been rewoven with kashmiring ... read more

Chodor Chuval, large Turkmen bagface with large well-spaced chuval guls. Saturated madder-red abrash, greens, blue-greens, and slate blue.

With the format of a yastik and the general size and orientation of a prayer rug, this East Anatolian Kurd weaving seems ... read more