Lot Essay
Although this carpet is not of tremendous age, it is a very beautiful carpet of its type. Interestingly, it is the only Turkman carpet in the collection.
Details
A BESHIR CARPET
SOUTH UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1880
The cherry-red field with abrashed indigo diamonds enclosing cherry- red stylized floral lattices and spots all with brown boteh borders and flanked by similar half diamonds within an abrashed indigo and brown stylized latch-hooked palmette border, floral guard stripes, plain woven kilim ends, repairs to fold crease areas, minor repairs to selvages
Approximately 12ft.5in. x 7ft.1in. (379cm. x 215cm.)
Warp: wool, ivory, dark brown with white threads, 1 strand ivory and 1 strand with brown and white threads, or 1 strand ivory and 1 strand light brown, Z2S, slightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, wool, red, pink or blue, or cotton, white or light blue, Z2S, undulating. The light blue cotton weft is always a single shoot and followed by a pink wool shoot. The white cotton weft is one or two shoots and again followed either immmediately or after one other shoot by pink wool
Pile: wool, Z2S, asymmetrical open to the right, H2.6 x V3.8/cm.
Sides: main weft flatwoven with seven additional warps, additional red wool wefts Z3S bound flatwoven around the seven dividing them into two groups of three and four
Ends: approx. 3-4cm. red wool Z2S flatweave
SOUTH UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1880
The cherry-red field with abrashed indigo diamonds enclosing cherry- red stylized floral lattices and spots all with brown boteh borders and flanked by similar half diamonds within an abrashed indigo and brown stylized latch-hooked palmette border, floral guard stripes, plain woven kilim ends, repairs to fold crease areas, minor repairs to selvages
Approximately 12ft.5in. x 7ft.1in. (379cm. x 215cm.)
Warp: wool, ivory, dark brown with white threads, 1 strand ivory and 1 strand with brown and white threads, or 1 strand ivory and 1 strand light brown, Z2S, slightly undulating
Weft: 2 shoots, wool, red, pink or blue, or cotton, white or light blue, Z2S, undulating. The light blue cotton weft is always a single shoot and followed by a pink wool shoot. The white cotton weft is one or two shoots and again followed either immmediately or after one other shoot by pink wool
Pile: wool, Z2S, asymmetrical open to the right, H2.6 x V3.8/cm.
Sides: main weft flatwoven with seven additional warps, additional red wool wefts Z3S bound flatwoven around the seven dividing them into two groups of three and four
Ends: approx. 3-4cm. red wool Z2S flatweave
Provenance
Acquired 4 December 1952 as a "Beshir alt" for DM400