A TEKKE TORBA, WEST TURKESTAN
Auction Closed
November 27, 04:04 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A TEKKE TORBA, WEST TURKESTAN
mid 19th century
approximately 130 by 47cm; 4ft. 3in., 1ft. 7in.
Rippon Boswell, Weisbaden, 31 May 2014, lot 188
This twelve gul torba has secondary chemche motifs alternately framed in green and blue, within a kochak border. The elem is spaciously decorated with hooked crosses. Please see, Pinner, R., The Rickmers Collection, Turkoman Rugs in the Ethnographic Museum Berlin, Berlin 1993, pls. 27 and 30.