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

Described by V.G. Moshkova as being from the Nurta Mountains which is north of Bukhara.

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