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This large rug has been woven on silk
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A very fine Isfahan Serafian large rug, Central Persia
The ivory field with scrolling arabesques and polychrome palmette and leafy vine around tomato-red concentric medallion with pendants containinig small palmettes enclosing similar smaller medallion with floral centrepiece, indigo spandrels with arabesques and delicate floral tendrils, in tomato-red border of polychrome serrated palmettes floral arabesques and flowering vine between ivory and indigo similar stripes, outer plain stripe, signature cartouche at one end, wide kilim at each end
244cm. x 163cm.(8ft. x 5ft.4in.)
The ivory field with scrolling arabesques and polychrome palmette and leafy vine around tomato-red concentric medallion with pendants containinig small palmettes enclosing similar smaller medallion with floral centrepiece, indigo spandrels with arabesques and delicate floral tendrils, in tomato-red border of polychrome serrated palmettes floral arabesques and flowering vine between ivory and indigo similar stripes, outer plain stripe, signature cartouche at one end, wide kilim at each end
244cm. x 163cm.(8ft. x 5ft.4in.)