PROBABLY ERSARI, MIDDLE AMU DARYA, TURKMENISTAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

This very opulent chuval face uses wonderful wool and considerable quantities of purple silk. For other related weavings please see Louise W. Mackie and Jon Thompson, Turkmen Tribal Carpets and Traditions, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1980, no.89; Ulrich Schürmann, Central Asian Rugs, Frankfurt, 1969, no.55; Uwe Jourdan, Oriental Rugs, Volume 5, Turkman, Woodbridge, 1989, no. 277; V. G. Moshkova, Carpets of the People of Central Asia of the Late XIX and XX Centuries, Tucson, 1996, no.145; H. McCoy Jones and Col. Jeff Boucher, The Ersari and their Weaving, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1975, nos.41&42; Raymond Benardout, Catalogue of Turkoman Weaving including Beluch, London, 1974, no.34.