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