Details
A MAHAL CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
The shaded red field with an overall scrolling vine issuing large polychrome palmettes and tendrils issuing flowerheads, inner zigzag stripe, in a shaded indigo border of polychrome palmettes, issuing flowerheads and stylised leaves between mustard-yellow serrated leaf and flowerhead and light blue ribbon stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe, areas of wear
12ft.5in. x 8ft.8in. (379cm. x 264cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
The shaded red field with an overall scrolling vine issuing large polychrome palmettes and tendrils issuing flowerheads, inner zigzag stripe, in a shaded indigo border of polychrome palmettes, issuing flowerheads and stylised leaves between mustard-yellow serrated leaf and flowerhead and light blue ribbon stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe, areas of wear
12ft.5in. x 8ft.8in. (379cm. x 264cm.)