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A similar example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (published Dimand, M.S. and Mailey,J.: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973 p.293, pl.191).
WEST TURKMENISTAN CIRCA 1850
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A PART COTTON AND SILK YOMUT TENT BAND
WEST TURKMENISTAN CIRCA 1850
The ivory field with rectangular panels of angular stylised fox-brown, green, indigo, yellow and ivory hooked plant motifs divided by similar smaller panels between fox-brown stepped lozenge and zigzag stripes, outer barber-pole stripe, flat-woven horizontal bands at each end, areas of very slight damage and negligible wear
44ft.3in. x 1ft.1in. (1348cm. x 33cm.)
WEST TURKMENISTAN CIRCA 1850
The ivory field with rectangular panels of angular stylised fox-brown, green, indigo, yellow and ivory hooked plant motifs divided by similar smaller panels between fox-brown stepped lozenge and zigzag stripes, outer barber-pole stripe, flat-woven horizontal bands at each end, areas of very slight damage and negligible wear
44ft.3in. x 1ft.1in. (1348cm. x 33cm.)