A Beshir prayer rug, South Turkestan,

Beshir prayer rugs such as this are rare with a very similar example to this lot being that from the collection of Arthur D. Jenkins now in the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., see Thompson, Jon and Mackie, Louise, Turkmen, Washington, D.C. 1980, pl. 95, p. 187.  A few other related examples include Sotheby's New York, April 30, 1983, lot 136; Schurmann, Ulrich, Central-Asian Rugs, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1969, pl. 48, p. 124; Rippon Boswell, November 16, 1996, lot 141 and Sotheby's New York, September 20, 2001, lot 55; Sotheby's New York, December 3, 2003, lot 107.