While carpets of this type are today thought of purely as decorative products of 19th century Persia, earlier this century they were obviously highly thought of. An almost identical example in the Ballard Collection (Ballard, James F: Catalogue of Oriental Rugs in the Collection of J F Ballard, Indianapolis, 1924, no 7, p 13, ill p14) is catalogued as "Joshaghan, eighteenth century", while another on identical field design is published in Grote-Hasenbalg (Werner: Der Orientteppiche, seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, Berlin, 1922, Vol III, pl.61) as Central Persian circa 1800.