Description Salor chuval, maida-gul type, Turkmenistan, circa 1800, or earlier. Another distinguished Salor masterpiece in the Marsh Collection, the middle row of large maida-gul turreted octagons are beautifully executed with a partial row at the top and bottom disappearing under the respective border, suggesting the desirable feature of an "infinite repeat." There is excellent spacing in the composition between major and minor guls and the narrow gap inside the border is seen on all four sides allowing the clear glowing red ground peer through. These are seemingly small details, but they are important in the connoisseurship and appreciation of the best early Turkmen work. Exhibited and Published: Dodds and Eiland, Jr., eds.; ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, p. 177, fig. 199, ICOC, Philadelphia, 1996. Also in this publication, please see two more maida-gul Salor chuvals exhibited at ICOC and, dated to the 18th century, from the Bogolubov Collection, Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia. Exhibited: "Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving," Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2003. Exhibited: The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, 14th ICOC, The Textile Museum, 2018. Size: 4'2'' x 2'8'' (127 x 81 cm). Weight: 4 lbs. Lot 55. Warp: ivory wool, alternate warps very depressed. Wefts: brown wool, 2 shoots. Pile: wool, silk, asymmetrical knots open to the left, 13 horiz. x 16 vert. per in. (51 x 63 per dm.).
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