Property from a European Collection
A Tekke torba, West Turkestan, mid 19th century
Auction Closed
March 31, 12:40 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
approximately 130 by 47cm.
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.