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Rug
Turkmen (probably Yomud)
19th century
Medium/Technique
Wool plain weave with discontinuous patterning wefts
Dimensions
Overall (excluding fringe): 316.2 x 213.4 cm (124 1/2 x 84 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Igor Robert Blake
Accession Number2007.1133
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CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionCarpet of weft-faced wool plain weave with off-white warps and red wefts; main field brocaded with overall geometric pattern in lighter red, white, green, medium blue and dark blue. Wide end borders of red plain-weave with blue stripes; narrow plain-weave ends and fringe of off-white wool. Brass rings sewn along one side edge.
Provenance19th century, acquired by Peter Kryzhanovksi [see note 1]; sold to his brother, Nikolai Ivanovich Kryzhanovski, Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia); January, 1920, given to his daughter, Nadezhda (Nadejda) Nikolaevna Kryzhanovskaya (b. 1899 - d. 1976) and her husband, Robert Pierpont Blake (b. 1886 - d. 1950), Cambridge, MA and San Francisco; 1976, by inheritance to their son, Igor Robert Blake, San Francisco; 2007, year-end gift of Igor Robert Blake to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 23, 2008)
NOTES: [1] Said to have been acquired during the Russo-Turkish Wars, probably 1877-1878. Peter Kryzhanovski was an officer, and his brother Nikolai was an appellate judge. They were Kuban Cossacks.
NOTES: [1] Said to have been acquired during the Russo-Turkish Wars, probably 1877-1878. Peter Kryzhanovski was an officer, and his brother Nikolai was an appellate judge. They were Kuban Cossacks.