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A SILK YARKAND CARPET
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A SILK YARKAND CARPET

TARIM BASIN, CIRCA 1880

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A SILK YARKAND CARPET
TARIM BASIN, CIRCA 1880
The shaded pale green field with an overall design of linked hooked panels in a burgundy-red border of stylised linked polychrome hooked stripes, plain outer burgundy-red stripe, excellent condition
10ft.4in. x 4ft.6in. (315cm. x 137cm.)
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Lot Essay

The field design on this carpet is one that is found on Chinese carpets from an early date. One magnificent example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dimand, M.S. and Mailey, Jean: Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, no.199, p.338 and fig.268 pp.164-5). The colouring of the present rug is however typically Tarim Basin; a wool example with very comparable field design is published by Herrmann (Eberhart: Seltene Orientteppiche IV, Munich, 1982, no.98, pp.258-9).

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