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A TEKKE CARPET
TURKMENISTAN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field with four columns of ten linked Tekke guls divided by minor hooked cruciform guls alternating with extra minor guls, in a panelled border of octagons containing stellar flowerheads divided by panels containing a variety of motifs including human figures, between kotchak and barber-pole stripes, a skirt of floral motifs at each end, emboidered kilim strip at one end, some areas of repair and negligible loss at one end
10ft.10in. x 6ft.9in. (329cm. x 206cm.)
TURKMENISTAN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaded brick-red field with four columns of ten linked Tekke guls divided by minor hooked cruciform guls alternating with extra minor guls, in a panelled border of octagons containing stellar flowerheads divided by panels containing a variety of motifs including human figures, between kotchak and barber-pole stripes, a skirt of floral motifs at each end, emboidered kilim strip at one end, some areas of repair and negligible loss at one end
10ft.10in. x 6ft.9in. (329cm. x 206cm.)