Description Tekke small rug, 3 x 8 Main carpet guls, Turkmenistan, first half 19th century. Another choice small format Tekke carpet that fits well into the Marsh Collection. The cherry red color sparkles as with another small Tekke rug in this sale. The unusual border consists of ashik motifs inside squares s inside connected hexagonal reserves. Exhibited and Published: Dodds and Eiland, Jr., eds.; ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, p. 169, fig. 187, ICOC, Philadelphia, 1996. Size: 4'0'' x 4'10'' (122 x 147 cm). Weight: 7 lbs. Warp: ivory wool, alternate warp levels. Weft: brown wool, 2 shoots. Pile wool, assymetrical knots open to the right, 10 horiz x 16 vert per in. (39 x 63 per dm.).
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