CENTRAL PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY
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A SILK AND METAL THREAD SOUF KASHAN RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY
The shaded ivory field with a central tree issuing palmettes and flowerheads surrounded by similar flowering and leafy plants, the ivory mihrab arch above containing burgundy arabesques and palmette leafy tendrils, in a shaded ivory border of palmette cartouches divided by floral stellar panels and paired plant-motifs between burgundy scrolling palmette vine stripes, outer mill-pattern and ivory reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes
6ft.5in. x 4ft.2in. (196cm. x 127cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY
The shaded ivory field with a central tree issuing palmettes and flowerheads surrounded by similar flowering and leafy plants, the ivory mihrab arch above containing burgundy arabesques and palmette leafy tendrils, in a shaded ivory border of palmette cartouches divided by floral stellar panels and paired plant-motifs between burgundy scrolling palmette vine stripes, outer mill-pattern and ivory reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes
6ft.5in. x 4ft.2in. (196cm. x 127cm.)