KURDISH PRAYER RUG, SARKISLA / circa 1870-80

Size: 4'9" x 2'9"
Condition / Description: Mostly high super soft silky shining pile. Reselvedged, and the lower guard stripe is rewoven. Wonderful green abrashes!

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ANTIQUE MONASTIR PRAYER RUG, Turkish Balkans, circa 1850

Size: 3'6" x 4'6"
Condition / Description: This is a 150 year old prayer rug woven in the Balkans by people of Turkish descent. It has tightly spun lustrous soft wool and soft light colors. There is a small area of restoration in the lower right field and some restoration of the selvedge. It is in overall good condition.

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AFYON KELIM, Anatolia, 18th century

Size: 14' x 5'4" (both halves together)
Condition / Description: This is an important early Turkish kelim from one of the most sought after regions and periods. It is of a quality an age that allows it to fit into any of the major kelim collections, (including the McCoy & Caroline Jones collection at the DeYoung in San Francisco). It has wonderfully saturated greeens and purples with abrash throughout. It has been expertly restored, so that it can be used on the floor or displayed on the wall. Original photo in unrestored condition is available on request.

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Very Old ANATOLIAN KELIM FRAGMENT
Central Turkey, Natural Camel / Circa 1800

Size: 3' x 5'
Condition / Description: Old, Tattered, and Torn. This piece is no longer for sale, but I have another unmounted piece of the same kelim in approximately the same size. This is a collectors only piece, (I think), and it is self-explanatory. Early ones of these natural camel banded kelims are rare, and only the long Muse fragment in the Jones collection is better, in my opinion. Will send photos of the other piece on request.

Price: $800 (unmounted)

Antique CIHANBEYLI KURD Rug
Central Eastern Turkey / Circa 1875

Size: 3' x 6'4" (approx.)
Condition / Description: I spent a fortune restoring this little rug, even though it doesn't have a lot of restoration. I discovered it in a small bazaar in a mosque courtyard in Istanbul and bought it because I wanted to preserve it. Well times have changed, and I might not make the same decision today, but i'm glad that I did at the time. One end border is restoration. There are small amounts of restoration to the field, and parts of the sides are restored, as well as the selvedges. I made no changes to the rug and it retains it's completely unique and original character. It doesn't lie flat, either, and I like it that way, (stretching hurts the texture and shine of the wool, but that is just my opinion). It has beautiful soft silky wool and an exceptional purple ground field color. Also has the lovely abrashes of apricot and orange that are common to the region and period. The weave is very fine for a village rug.

Price: $3,000

Ancient KONYA SAFF KELIM, Anatolia,
Circa 1700-1750

Size: 8'6" x 5' (approx.)
Condition / Description: Though missing large chunks and perhaps one or two ?mirahbs?, the power and the beauty of this very old kelim shine through. It has a wonderful deep purple and rich dark rust, alnog with good blues, red and green. It is a simple and powerful statement, and though having a different palette than the piece on the cover of the Muse / Jones collection book, compares favorably in drawing and materials. Mounted on moderately heavy beige linen.

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ANTIQUE MALATYA RUG, Kurdish SE
Anatolia, Circa 1880

Size: 3'3" x 7'7"
Condition / Description: Well, I'm working on my web site while traveling in Central Asia; so I can't tell you the EXACT size of the piece, but that's about right. It has the typical soft shinny wool and deep (especially the cochineal) saturated organic colors of the best Kurdish rugs from this area. It has that wonderful apricot and also the deep burnt orange that you only see in old rugs from this area. There are some small reweaves of holes, reselvedging, and low areas where the browns and purples were corroded. The white of the border is high and fluffy, giving an incite into the age of the piece, (i.e. the speed at which the browns corroded). It also has highlights of a bright soft yellow which are very nice...just a charming little rug.

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ANTIQUE MALATYA KELIM,
SE Anatolia Kurdish / Circa 1825

Size: 12' x 3'8" (exact size on request)
Condition / Description: Frankly, I never bothered to measure this piece. I think the condition can be accurately described as, 'AS IS'! When one is dealing with objects of this subtlety and beauty.......Well, hopefully you understand the piece.

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EARLY LADIK / OBRUK KELIM
Central Western Anatolia / Circa 1700-1750

Size: 14' x 6'
Condition / Description: This is a Major Important kelim, belonging to a rare group, of which there are very few remaining examples. The coloring and palette are identical to the multiple medallion Ladik runners of the same time period. Soft yellow, mauves, blues, and light greens are used to offset the bold major fields of red and blue, and highlighted white cotton. Dynamic, Bold, Powerful, are the words to describe this textile. However the color palette softens the impact somewhat and allows the piece to fit harmoniously into any environment. This is a serious collectors piece that can also be used as a centerpiece to a modern design environment in a major setting. It is museum quality mounted on heavy beige linen and has restorations to the browns and the white cotton in the center medallion.

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This 17th c. KARAPINAR RUG was lost or stolen in Turkey in the middle of the 1990?s. It was last seen at the 1999 ICOC in Milan in the possesion of Ferdi Bessim, who returned the rug to a certain Hidir Kalkan of Istanbul, Turkey. The rug has been reported as stolen to the Italian police in Milan and I am in possesion of receipts showing my purchase of the rug in NY City in 1986. There is a $10,000 reward for the return of, or information leading to the recovery of the rug!
Stolp D. Fraser, East Hampton, N.Y. tel. 001 917 445 8993, or 631 329 0769.

YURUK PRAYER RUG, circa1875 Kagizman,
(perhaps Sivas)

Size: 2'5" x 5'2"
Condition / Description: Intact, no major repair, a powerful totemic piece with exceptioanal color. Minor repiling of red in a small band across the top of the Mirahb.

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SIVAS KURD, eastern Anatolia, mid 19th c.

Size: 12' x 3'8" (exact size on request)
Condition / Description: "As Is", Missing edges of guard stripe, "invisible" stitch stabilizing ends and edges.

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