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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.