A LARGE SULTANABAD CARPET
A LARGE SULTANABAD CARPET

WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

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A LARGE SULTANABAD CARPET
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with overall bold polychrome palmettes, angular vine and delicate floral tendrils, in a broad shaded brick-red border of bold turtle-palmettes, rosettes and flowering vine between light blue and brick-red floral meander stripes, outer floral stripes, localised wear, corroded brown, outer stripes partially rewoven, crudely repaired slits, slight loss at each end, ends and selvages bound
26ft.11in. x 13ft.8in. (820cm. x 416cm.)

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