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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN OR INDIAN FRAGMENTARY CARPET

17TH CENTURY

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A NORTH WEST PERSIAN OR INDIAN FRAGMENTARY CARPET
17TH CENTURY
The brick-red field with an overscale polychrome palmette, floral vine and cloudband arabesque lattice within an abrashed indigo to blue-green rosette and cloudband border, heavy wear, one border rewoven, pieced together, minor tinting, scattered repairs
9ft.6in. x 8ft. (289cm. x 244cm.)
Provenance
W. Chandjian, Munich
Acquired from above 13 January 1956, as an "Ispahah, alt" for DM1500
Literature
Kendrick, A. F. and Tattersall, C. E. C.: Hand-woven carpets, London, 1922, pl.27 B.
Neugebauer, R. and Orendi, J.: Orientalische Teppichkunde, Leipzig, 1923, pl.27.

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