An eagle gül-group II torba, West Turkestan

complete with original back and tassles

Sotheby's New York, December 7, 2010, lot 53

For closely related examples also exhibiting a design of three complete güls flanked by half-güls, please refer to Peter Andrews, et al., Wie Blumen in der Wüste, Hamburg 1993, pl. 41; Eberhart Herrmann, Seltene Orientteppiche, Vol. VIII, Munich 1986, pl. 102a; Jon Thompson and Louise Mackie, Turkmen, Washington, D.C., 1980, pl. 61; and lot 76 in this catalogue.