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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Saryk Main Carpet, old drawing with iconic border, hints of silk
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  • Baluch with stary field on an ochre ground. Looks like it should be symmetrically knotted but it is asymmetric open left. Beautiful ... read more
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  • Shanpula type slit tapestry textile fragment. 2000 years old. For more information see Abegg-Stiftung, Riggesberger Berichte no. 10, 'Fabulous Creatures from the ... read more
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  • Yomut Chuval with Tree Elem, finely drawn
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  • Yomut Chuval with large-scale drawing. (needs a bath)
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  • Ersari Main Carpet with Guli Guls. apx.6'10"x8'2" (208x250cm)
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  • East Anatolian Kagizman Kurd Rug, 2-1-2 format, fragmented
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  • Large Tekke Main Carpet with references to Turkmen embroidery in the border. The large size allows for a very well spaced five ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Filikli with vibrant all natural colors. Bold almost modernest composition with fine detailing with flatweave techniques.
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  • South Persian Afshar? Boteh Rug with a shawl design. worn but beautiful. Great saturated all natural color including madder red as well ... read more
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  • Classic Six Gul Tekke Torba, saturated color, silk highlights, candy-cane elem, nice silk, neat condition.
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  • Kizyl Ayak Chuval, classic and colorful with blue, green, blue green, lemon yellow and black. sparse floral motifs floating in the elem. ... read more
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  • Double Tree 19th Khorosan Baluch. Perhaps based on reduction and adaptation of earlier garden carpet design. Central medallion with zig-zag kilim, all ... read more
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  • Baluch Camel-Ground Prayer Rug, strong graphics with mihrab references at the bottom as well. small areas with pink weft. 34"x66"
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  • Anatolian eye-dazzler yatak with fantastic color. Probably Kuthaya region. fragmented. mounted and conserved on black backing. 155x130cm
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  • Old Yomut Chuval with bold colorful tree elem
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  • Very Old, Very Soft, Excellently drawn, large-scale Six Gul Tekke Torba. some condition issues but still a great Turkmen piece rescued from ... read more
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  • Snow-flake Baluch. Very soft wool. Looks like an Arab piece but knots are open left. 4'5" x 2'8"
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  • Super Central Anatolian Kilim
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  • Luristan Bronze standard finial with 'Master of the Beasts' imagery. circa 8th cen bce. 19cm/ 7.5"
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  • Pair of Fine Qashqai Bags. One has some damage. one is in better shape as seen in the images.
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  • Yomut chuval with well spaced minors.
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  • Khorosan Baluch rug, with corroded brown ground and design elements often associated with Timuri type weavings. Very intriguing central element. Lots of ... read more
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  • Khorossan Baluch Minakhani Rug with Open Blossoms. This is an uncommon variant seen most frequently on earlier minakhani Baluch carpets. This piece ... read more
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  • West Anatolian Bergama area / Çanakkale carpet with a Ghirlandaio medallion.
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  • Earlier East Anatolian Kurd Rug.
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  • Chodor Tauk Nauska Main Carpet, great quality with some silk highlights. Older than most.
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  • Bashir Minakhani kelleh of the honeycomb variety.
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  • Baluch star bag with octagon center and lustrous wool.
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  • Baluch balisht from northeast Persia, fine weave and lots of different blues and greens, dynamic drawing of the tree and accompanying repertoire ... read more
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  • Western Anatolian Medallion Rug, great color and organic asymmetry, mounted and conserved.
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  • Square Ersari / Middle Amu Darya Carpet with Dyrnak Design
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  • circa 8th century silk samite textile fragment with paired birds in pearl roundels. Central Asian / Sogdian. apx. 10"x16"
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  • Squarish-shaped Kazak, authentic un-repaired condition. Good age, needs some love. size is 6'3" x 5'9"
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  • East Anatolian Yastik with spectacularly abstracted drawing. Woven with the thick glossy soft wool that this group is known for. Very colorful ... read more
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  • Two East Anatolian fragments, probably 18th century, a variety of interesting motifs represented. mounted and conserved, apx. 3'x2'.
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  • Baluch Prayer Rug with minakhani border and camel field. Lustrous wool! Khorosan, 19th century.
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  • Lenkoran design Kazak? fragment. Top notch color including a perfect grape purple. The blue-grey ground is rare and a great backdrop for ... read more
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  • Turkmen ensi, not quite Yomut, not quite Chodor
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  • Chinese Ningxia Rug, Imagery of abundance, medallions with birds and fret-dragon corner pieces in keeping with the aesthetics of Qianlong era, (1735-1796). ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurd Rug, fantastic wool, saturated color. orange wefted, condition issues, good scale, recently washed and gleaming. 7'3"x4'5"
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  • Konya Memling Gul Rug, fragmented at top. Memling guls measure about 13" square with some variations. Fantastic vibrant color including aubergine, apricot ... read more
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  • Salor fragment, half gul from a main carpet
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  • Anatolian Yatak Fragments, conserved, arranged and mounted on a stretcher. apx. 4'x1'. Lovely color and drawing.
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  • 8 Gul Tekke torba. One of only a handful of known examples. Good age, fine weave with classic Tekke drawing. Some cotton ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish yastik, beautiful shimmering unlined center, 3 blues and a lighter blue weft than most of this type. Complex use ... read more
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  • Yastik-shaped East Anatolian pastiche nicely assembled from what must have been a great East Anatolian Sivas? rug. Thick pile, good colors, could ... read more
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  • Antique East Anatolian Kurdish Fragment. crisp drawing and all natural colors. The majority of the flatwoven brocade ends at the top are ... read more
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