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A BESHIR KELLEH
EAST TURKMENISTAN, CIRCA 1880
The fox-brown field with an overall design of brick-red and blue serrated leaves enclosing panels surrounded by stylised flowerheads, in a brick-red polychrome hooked palmette border between fox-brown and blue hanging jewellery and golden yellow flowerhead and crab-rosette stripes, with two outer fox-brown hanging jewellery stripes, striped kilim strip at one end, areas of slight wear and repiling, slight loss at one end
18ft.9in. x 6ft.9in. (570cm. x 206cm.)
EAST TURKMENISTAN, CIRCA 1880
The fox-brown field with an overall design of brick-red and blue serrated leaves enclosing panels surrounded by stylised flowerheads, in a brick-red polychrome hooked palmette border between fox-brown and blue hanging jewellery and golden yellow flowerhead and crab-rosette stripes, with two outer fox-brown hanging jewellery stripes, striped kilim strip at one end, areas of slight wear and repiling, slight loss at one end
18ft.9in. x 6ft.9in. (570cm. x 206cm.)