AN ANTIQUE BLUE BACKGROUND POMEGRANATE VASE KHOTAN CARPET

Description:

East Turkestan, Tarim Basin, 1st half 19th ct.
283 x 151 cm
Shirazi machine overcast, uper ending uncomplete, Restorations and repilings, traces of usage, areas of color retouches (permanent color).
From an old Berlin private collection, assembled prior to 2000
cf. Bidder, Carpets from Eastern Turkestan /1964/1976), p. 52, no. 6.