Lot Essay
This beautifully proportioned Yomut carpet has the unusual feature of a camel train in the upper elem skirt, a detail more usually associated with weavings on a smaller scale.
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WEST TURKMENISTAN, CIRCA 1800
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A YOMUT CARPET
WEST TURKMENISTAN, CIRCA 1800
The shaded plum field with three columns of ten Tauk Nuska guls divided by hooked cruciform panels, in an ivory border of barber-pole panels containing angular stepped flowerheads between brick-red hooked vine stripes, the lower elem skirt with stylised leafy tendrils, the upper with diagonal flowerheads and a short camel train, outer side stripe missing, areas of wear, some areas of repiling, more severe at one end
8ft.8in. x 5ft. (264cm. x 152cm.)
WEST TURKMENISTAN, CIRCA 1800
The shaded plum field with three columns of ten Tauk Nuska guls divided by hooked cruciform panels, in an ivory border of barber-pole panels containing angular stepped flowerheads between brick-red hooked vine stripes, the lower elem skirt with stylised leafy tendrils, the upper with diagonal flowerheads and a short camel train, outer side stripe missing, areas of wear, some areas of repiling, more severe at one end
8ft.8in. x 5ft. (264cm. x 152cm.)
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