FINE RUGS AND CARPETS FROM AMERICAN ESTATES
Featuring the Abraham Moheban & Son Collection
Live Showroom Auction: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 11AM ET
Public Exhibition: November 17, 18, 19, 11AM-4PM
Iconic and Rare Flatwoven Turkmen Wedding Cover (Shadda), Transcaspian Region, Ca. 1800, or possibly earlier, 5’6’’ x 13’6’’ (168 x 411 cm).
The only other known or published example to our knowledge is in the Russian Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg.
See HALI Issue 176, 2013, pages 38-39. Provenance: Abraham Moheban & Son Collection, New York
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