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Very large antique Turkoman Ersari main carpet, 1900 NR
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An antique very large rug / carpet with very attractive colors, in my humble opinion Turkoman Ersari, made circa 1900 (could be late 19th century, but also early 20th century). Measurements 341 cm x 244 cm (or 134,25 inch x 96,06 inch being circa 11,2 ft by 8 ft)
The rug, with salt and pepper colored animal hair warps (not the dark grey variety that one sees with the later, cruder Afghan pieces) and two fine brown wool wefts between each row of knots has asymetric knots opening to the left and a light to medium degree of warp depression. The pile is of a a soft, shiny good quality wool. Sides have a 4 cable animal hair selvedge. The rug has an arrangement of 3 x 8 rows of octagonal guls, each gul with an trefoil motif and an ikat / beshir style center. A star flower motif is also used as a secondary gul. The main border has a design of continuous linked diamonds guarded on each side by a minor barberpole border and a shudur border. At the far outside t is a dot border. One of the aspects that show the good quality of this piece (apart from its wonderful colors) is the attention to detail: please note for example the striped / dotted lines between the several internal segments of the guls, the few differently colored trefoil leaves standing out in the soft coral red, and the use of green and blue next to each other for the details to create a very lively feel. A carpet with a very similar design and the same colors can be found inOriental Rugs Volume 5, Turkoman on page 257. The rug has wonderful colors, which are quite difficult to catch on photograph (the red tends to 'take over' and cause strange color effects on the photo's). The colors are: a chique, classic deep 'chuval' burgundy wine red, a softer, coral red tone (used as a secondary color in amongst others the guls), a good mixed dark blue, a good mixed fir / emerald green, and a good, 'clean' duckling yellow. And of course natural brown and white. All colors in my humble opinion natural. The condition of the rug is good but not perfect. It is has light to medium overall wear consistent with its age, with one of the corners having suffered heavy wear (please see photo 6). T is an old repair that needs repairing again (t is a tear to one of the sides of the repair) - see photo 5. Information added Sunday September 16: the pile in this area also has had slightly more wear - see photo 7 and 11 . Both ends have been secured well, please note that the sides are not in perfect condition as t is ( information added Sunday September 16 :) in my humble opinion relatively minor damage to the selvedges Corners not in perfect condition (but not really bad either). On the back t is a strip of sticky tape that I have left as is, as removing it will just leave a lot of sticky on the rug. The rug has an S number (S304419), meaning that it was imported into the Netherlands before WWII by the Dutch rug company Perez. This is the kind of piece I can easily picture in the main hall of a Scottish castle (with an antique oak table on top and two Irish wolfdogs looking with suspicion at anyone who dares to enter) as it has a certain elegant, shabby chic 'old money' feel to it. A real nice piece. Items are described to my best knowledge. Ifyou like me to send you bigger/heavier photo's to get a better idea of condition or details please email me. About the dyes: t's always a lot of interest in whether synthetic or natural dyes have been used for a piece. Although I will give my opinion about what I think might be the nature of a dye (providing I have some knowledge of the particular palette), it feel that I should not give guarantees in this field as I have a neither 20 years of experience in this field nor a chemical lab w I can actually do an analysis. I can really recommend an interesting article ("How do we distinguish natural from synthetic dyes?") by Steven Price about the difficulties of distinguishing between natural and chemical dyes can be found at the following webadres: /journa... 
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