Uzbek antique nomad rug (78 x 139cm)

78 x 139 cm  //  2ft 6" x 4ft 6"

These carpets are sometimes erroneously described as ‘Karakalpak’. See our other almost complete example.

• mid 19th cent or older

CF plate 29 Bogolubov Carpets of Central Asia, St Petersburg 1908

Cf. plate 118, Museum of Ethnography, Leningrad No. 362-21. Tzareva, Elena., Rugs & Carpets from Central Asia, Penguin Books 1984

Provenance: Simon Crosby collection

Ref. 14264