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Lot 2187
Two Turkoman Area Rugs
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Wool; the first a bag face with wine-red field of alternating guls and cross-shaped motifs, the main border with trident motif, within minor reciprocal wave borders (2 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. 8.5 in.) (wear and loss to edges, areas of exposed foundation); the second with lattice-grid of large guls alternating with large flying insect-like motif, main border of hooked crosses inside octagons, end with half-diamond motifs (3 ft. 2 in. x 4 ft. 5 in.) (significant wear and loss of pile, areas of exposed foundation, hole).

From the Collection of the late Mr. & Mrs. Paul and Betty Mushak, Durham, North Carolina