AN EAGLE GROUP II TORBA, WEST TURKESTAN

Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 31 May 2014, lot 120.

With one complete row of three primary guls, a row of half guls above and below, the primary border of reciprocal hooks against several shades of madder and blue, and white. As noted in the catalogue entry for this torba when offered by Rippon Boswell its technical characteristics of asymmetric knots open to the right, no warp depression and a relatively coarse weave, together with the drawing style and warm colours support an attribution to the Eagle-gol II group of weavings. (See lot 22 for discussion of this nomenclature). 

A comparable piece, also with its wrapped fringes surviving, is noted in the Haack Collection, see Sienknecht, H.C., exhibition catalogue "Große Taschen, kleine Taschen". Miniaturkunst der Turkmenen aus der Sammlung Sienknecht Collection, Hodenhagen 1997, no. 48. Other comparables include that published by the Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, Wie Blumen in der Wüste. Die Kultur der turkmenischen Nomadenstämme Zentralasiens. Hamburg 1993, no. 41; Thompson, J., Timbuktu to Tibet. Exotic Rugs & Textiles from New York Collections, New York 2008, pl. 35 and Tsareva, E., Turkmen Carpets: The Hoffmeister Collection, Stuttgart 2011, no. 137.