Lot Essay
A number of comparable juvals have been published: Werner Loges, Turkoman Tribal Rugs, London, 1980, no. 100; Siawosch U. Azadi, Turkoman Carpets and the Ethnographic Significance of their Ornaments, Fishguard, 1975, no. 37; Uwe Jourdan, Oriental Rugs, Volume 5, Turkman, Woodbridge, 1989, no. 263; Amos Bateman Thacher, Turkoman Rugs, New York, 1940, pl. 45; V. G. Moshkova, Carpets of the People of Central Asia of the Late XIX and XX Centuries, Tucson, 1996, no.130; Robert Pinner and Murray L. Eiland Jr., Between the Black Desert and the Red - Turkmen Carpets from the Wiedersperg Collection, San Francisco, 1999, pl.61; David M. Reuben, Gols and Guls, Turkmen Carpets from the 18th and 19th centuries, London, 1998, no. 45; David M. Reuben, Gols and Guls II, Exhibition of Turkmen and Related Carpets from the 17th to 19th centuries, London, 2001, no. 15; H. McCoy Jones and Col. Jeff Boucher, The Ersari and their Weaving, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1975, no. 43; Robert Pinner and Murray L. Eiland Jr., Between the Black Desert and the Red - Turkmen Carpets from the Wiedersperg Collection, San Francisco, 1999, pl. 61; Christopher Dunham Reed, Turkoman Rugs, Cambridge, Mass., 1966, no.42; Jerome A. Straka and Louise W. Mackie, The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome and Mary Jane Straka, New York, 1978, no. 38; Sotheby's, Turkmen Rugs from the Collection of Dr. Werner Loges, auction catalogue, London, 19 October 1994, lot. 32.