"Eagle Group"
Asmalyk Rippon Boswell
The Allen Late 18th Century
Eagle Gull Torba
The Thompson Fine Brown Yomut Chuval
The Rautenstengel
Eagle Group Turkmen criteria
- Group I: 3- and 4-ply pile yarn.
Asymmetrical knot open to the left. Wool weft
with at least one silk weft shoot, usually dyed
red. Dark red-brown field color. Primary gul is
similar to Moshkova's LIX,3. (Seven carpets
listed and illustrated.)
- Group II: 2-ply pile yarn. Asymmetrical
knot open to the right. Wool weft with at least
one cotton (not silk) weft shoot. Medium
red-brown field color. Primary gul is similar to
Moshkova's LIX,6. (Eleven carpets listed; ten
illustrated.)
- Group III: 3-ply pile yarn. Asymmetrical
knot open to the left. Wool weft; may or may not
have silk or cotton shoots. Dark aubergine field
color. Primary gul is similar to Moshkova's
LIX,6. (Three carpets listed and illustrated.)
- In addition, there are seven possibly related
main carpets listed that differ from Groups I
through III by at least one key trait. None has
silk weft shoots, and two are woven with
symmetrical knots. Golklan-Tukmenen und
ihreTeppiche
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The Aija Blitte
Collection torba
I was a bit surprised to see this on Hali.com:
"Turkmen 'eagle-göl' group I torba or
trapping (detail), late 18th or early 19th
century. Approx. 1.20 x 0.60m (4'0"" x
2'0"").Aija Blitte Collection,
Washington DC (International Hajji Baba
Society)"
This piece is very familiar to me, it has been
shown around town extensively. I would not have
thought it that old. As a lucky find this was
charming but "late 18th or early 19th"
in Hali? What this really points to is the
ongoing conundrum in the study of Oriental rugs.
Older rugs tend to "better" so some
extrapolate that a better piece is older. The
Blitte Collection piece is a nice piece. Must we
then date it early on the basis of quality. I
suggest not. There is no reason why such a nice
piece could not be 100 years latter. Why not
"late 19th or early 20th"? Why not in
deed?
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'Eagle-gül' group torba
Seen on Cloudband
Another rarity was an 'Eagle-gül' group torba (13;
pl.113) with twelve octagons containing large birds
flanked by smaller animals. The design was first noticed
on a drawing of a khalyk in the Fine Arts Museum,
Ashkhabad. Similar torbas were published in Turkmen,
pl.57 and in Hali 87, p.130, where it was
advertised by James Blackmon (= Sotheby's New York, 4
June 1988, lot 103).
http://www.cloudband.com/frames.mhtml/magazine/articles/rev_kaffel_kings_p4_1199.html
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Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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