JBOC Attribution: Oriental Rugs > Turkmen Rugs > Chodor RugsWoolley & Wallis, Salisbury Salerooms Ltd. Carpets & Rugs Sale Thursday 14th February 2002
Lot 294 A rare Chodor Turkmen main carpet, north Turkmenistan mid 19th century, (pile area) 8ft.5in. x 6ft.1in. 2.56m. x 1.86m. £2500-3000 Slight overall wear, repair to centre. To our knowledge, less than five Chodor main carpets with four vertical rows of tauk nuska gols have been published. The wide flatwoven ends are rare survivals. Hammer Price £2000 Picture and Information from Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury Salerooms Ltd.
IMPORTANT ANTIQUE CHODOR MAIN CARPET
CA:1825 imokub2 Here is an ebay offering suitable for publication in the best of any Turkoman rug books. Antique CHODOR TURKOMAN main tent carpet, "Tauk Noska" gul format, West Turkestan, 1st half 19th century. Peter Hoffmeister, in his book TURKOMAN CARPETS IN FRANCONIA, see plate #7, page 58, writes that "Chodor Tauk Noska carpets are found mainly with guls in five rows, less often in only four". Simon Crosby commenting in the same publication states., "Chodor Tauk Noska carpets are early.....Pieces with guls in four lines are even rarer than those with five...we know only two...Azadi, plate 13 with 15 rows, and one in a Scottish private collection with seventeen." I know of one other piece with 4 rows in the Rijksmuseum collection which has 12 rows of guls. In addition, there is a carpet formerly in the Ballard collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see: Dimand & Mailey, 1973, figure 251) which has 3 lines of 14 rows and I believe this carpet has been reduced in width to create the 3 rows. The example I present to you has 4 lines of 16 rows and no other published example of any Chodor Tauk Noska gul carpet has the kelim ends extant like this one does! They are 20" long and for the most part complete. Notice that not only do the "animal head" elements in the guls have crests, but so do all the "animal head" elements in the Turkoman-line border. This is an unusual feature not present on other published Tauk Noska gul Chodor carpets. See: Uwe Jourdan, "Turkoman", plates 215 & 216. See: "Wie Blumen In Der Wuste", plate 79. See: Azadi, plate 13. See: Hoffmeister, plate 7. See: The Textile Musuem, Mackie & Thompson, "Turkoman Tribal Carpets and Traditions", plate 47. All of the above referenced examples have the same technical analysis as the present example: goat hair warps, cotton & wool wefts (one shoot each), asymettrical knots 16x8 = 128 kpsi, open right, level warps. Colors: pale aubergine, dark red, middle red, dark blue, pale blue, green/blue, yellow/gold, natural brown & ivory. The carpet is in great overall condition for its age with low but full pile and one central repair/pull-together patch about 6" in diameter and isolated moth bites. It has the original "barber-pole" selvedge around 4 bundles of warps. SIZE: 6'-1"x11'-8" including 20" kelim end panels. If anyone desires to talk to me at length about this offering, you are welcome to call me at (303) 527-1912. Michael Phillips (IMOKUB2). Please view my other listings this week. NOTE: I do not believe this carpet is earlier than 1800, nor is it later than 1850. I chose 1825 as a median date.
For Further Reading: Thanks and best wishes, J. Barry O'Connell Jr. |
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