A CHODOR MAIN CARPET, WEST TURKESTAN

Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 25 May, 2013, Lot 60

The rich aubergine ground supports five columns of twenty tauk nuska guls with lobed minor guls enclosing whorl motifs, the pile elems are striped with ashik motifs; there is a vivacious use of light blue and a light madder for the elems.  For a comparable example see, Hoffmeister, P., Turkoman Carpets in Franconia, Edinburgh 1980, No. 7.