CENTRAL ASIA. Turkestan. A Sarts Entertainment; Tamasha stilt walker 1900

CAPTION PRINTED BELOW PICTURE: 'A Sarts Entertainment - The Sarts spend most of their time idling, and are always delighted to find someone to perform for their pleasure. Here is a group of men and bo

Ca. 1900, 64 x 109 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This white-ground Yomut asmalyk shows ashik güls within a diamond lattice of wide serrated leaves. – Slight signs of age and wear, somewhat reduc

Ca. 1900, 34 x 101 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This torba woven by the Kizil Ayak tribe displays a kejebe field design and a border decoration influenced by Saryk weavings. – Very good conditio

Ca. 1800, 60 x 110 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan The field design of this rare Salor torba consists of three rows of six octagonal güls; small petrol diamonds decorated with double hooks at each c

late 18th century, 261 x 130 cm, Central Asia, East Turkestan In the red field of this early rug from the oasis town of Khotan, large dark blue disc medallions are embedded in a basic design of leaves

18th century, 68 x 104 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This fragment of an early Salor chuval has been cut all around; the left-hand side and upper border are missing. The field displays a spacious d

Ca. 1800, 76 x 75 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan Small-format knotted trappings of this kind are known as khalyks. Most of the surviving examples were woven by the Tekke tribe. On the day of the wed

Ca. 1800 or earlier, 56 x 95 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This unusual bag face showing every sign of great age cannot be assigned to any of the tribal groups defined to date. It is finely and reg

First half 19th century, 189 x 99 cm, Central Asia, East Turkestan A fragment of a multiple prayer rug (saf) from the Kashgar oasis. The surviving section consists of four mihrab fields which are stil

First half 19th century, 97 x 90 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan The field design of this very rare, square sitting rug consists of three rows of five Memling güls and chemche secondary motifs. Star

first half 19th century, 82 x 111 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan The brown-red field contains nine large primary güls of the chuval type. The secondary güls are white or yellow diamonds quarte

mid 19th century, a = 77 x 118 cm b= 76 x 118 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan Turkmen asmalyks are trappings that were suspended from both flanks of the camel on which the bride, seated in a veiled l

First half 19th century, 51 x 113 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan A torba woven by the Karadashli tribe, with nine chuval güls and chemche secondary motifs in a red-brown field. The border shows sma

Mid 19th century, 76 x 116 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan A large Tekke tent bag of the ak chuval type. Always very finely and elaborately woven, such pieces were produced in a mixed technique: wide

First half 19th century, 35 x 70 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan The palette, knotting structure and wool suggest that this small bag face in the kap format is a Yomut weaving. Kaps almost identical

mid 19th century, 260 x 193 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan A classic main carpet of the Tekke tribe. The brick-red field displays a repeat of 4 x 10 large, immaculately drawn primary guls and chemch

mid 19th century, 175 x 124 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan Another ensi of the same group was published by Elmby in 1990. There, too, the horizontal panel of the hatchlu cross is placed below the ce

early 19th century, 28 x 63 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan In addition to considerably larger chuvals and torbas, the Tekke Turkmen also produced smaller bags that are described as mafrash or kap, d

late 19th century, 78 x 112 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan The brown field contains nine large chuval guls and diamond-shaped secondary motifs. The elem shows five trees. Original upper finish, new

ca. 1800, 77 x 102 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan An early Karadashli chuval presenting nine large primary guls and similarly large chemche secondary guls, a floral border and a plain elem. The desi

Mid 19th century, 170 x 133 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan A colourful hatchlu design door rug woven by the Igdir tribe. The four segments of the field are densely patterned with small diamonds comp

Second half 19th century, 254 x 190 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This Tekke main carpet originally had a field design of four x ten primary güls, however it has been cut horizontally and rejoined

Second half 19th century, 165 x 146 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan This ensi woven in light colours is wider than most Yomut door rugs, and the brightly coloured tree forms in the two-panel elem are

Second half 19th century, 240 x 208 cm, Central Asia, West Turkestan Slight signs of age and wear, three holes, two darned and minor repiled areas. Good overall pile condition. Damaged selvedges on th