| New York Fine Oriental and European
Carpets Sale, NY7191, lot 173 See Guide to Yomut Carpets
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A Yomud carpet,
West Turkestan,
New York 10,000—15,000 USD Session 1
01 Oct 98 11:00 AM Lot Sold. Hammer Price with
Buyer's Premium: 25,300 USD
DESCRIPTION
A Yomud carpet,
West Turkestan, circa 1800, remnants of flatwoven
ends, rewoven and repiled areas, reselvaged,
approximately 10 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft. 8 in. (3.20
by 1.73m.)
Warp: wool, Z2S, natural ivory and brown
Weft: wool, Z, 2 shoots, natural brown
Pile: wool, symmetric knot
Density: 10H, 15-16V
Sides: incomplete
Ends: 1/4" ivory kilim, then warp fringe
Colors: purple-brown, rust-red, deep blue,
medium-blue, blue-green, yellow, ivory, walnut
The carpet offered here belongs to the
extremely rare group I of Yomud C-gul carpets,
see Sienknecht, Hans, p. 35 for a description of
the four subdivisions of C-gul carpets. In his
breakdown of these Yomud carpets, the author
defines those carpets having the serrated or
C-guls (common to all so-named C-gul carpets) and
two or more other gul types as group I. The
present carpet features the C-gul as well as the
curled-edge palmette gul and the transitional
gul, and thus belongs to group I (see Mackie,
Louise & Thompson, Jon. Turkmen. p. 147
for illustrations of the gul types). Mr.
Sienknecht cites only three other carpets
belonging to group I and further notes that in
groups I-III there are only 3 to 7 examples known
of each type (op. cit. p. 35).
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The group I C-gul carpets known are in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (ex-Ballard
collection), the Wher collection and the
Staatsliches Museum fur Volkerkunde, Munich (see
Sienknecht, op. cit., pls. 3, 4 and 5
respectively and Mackie
& Thompson, pl. 62 for a larger
illustration of the Ballard). Of these three
examples, the present carpet is most similar to
that in the Wher collection. Both the Wher and
the offered carpet have an open, deep colored
ground on which the guls are well spaced. |
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These two carpets also share the
curled-serrated leaf and meandering-vine border,
however, the colors have been reversed. The red
ground major border, flanked by ivory guard
borders, in the lot here offered appears to be
unusual in the entire repertoire of C-gul
carpets. The stylized shrub end-panels of the p
resent carpet are shared with C-gul group and
other designed Yomud
carpets (see Eberhart
Herrmann, 1988, pl. 96 and Turkmen and
Antique Carpets from the Collection of Dr. and
Mrs. Jon Thompson, Sotheby's NY, Dec. 16, 1993,
lots 42 and 46 respectively). These end panels
differ from those on the Wher collection carpet,
which has different designs at each end. There
are other differences between these two carpets,
however, in the overall design scheme, drawing of
the guls, spacing and range of color they are
closely related. In view of these shared
characteristics, it seems probable that this
carpet would fall closely after, or even
contemporaneously to, the Wher collection carpet
in a chronology of the C-gul carpets. The carpet
offered here is an exciting addition to the
corpus of these rare Yomud weavings. |
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References:
Sienknecht, Hans, "A Turkic Heritage,"
Hali, issue 47, pp. 30-39.
Dr. Jon Thompson
and Mackie, Louise W., Turkmen, Washington, D.C.
1980.
Eberhart Herrmann,
Seltene Orientteppiche, X, Munich, 1988. |
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Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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