CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A KASHAN MOCHTASHAM PICTORIAL RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The brick-red field depicting a variety of pictorial scenes from Persian epics including Bahram Gur's master shot, an ivory identificatory inscription cartouche above, inner brick-red stripe with ivory inscription cartouches and flowerheads, in a deep indigo border of polychrome palmettes and dense scrolling flowerhead and leafy vine between ivory meandering palmette vine stripes, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe, localised areas of slight wear, purple selvage
7ft.1in. x 4ft.5in. (215cm. x 135cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The brick-red field depicting a variety of pictorial scenes from Persian epics including Bahram Gur's master shot, an ivory identificatory inscription cartouche above, inner brick-red stripe with ivory inscription cartouches and flowerheads, in a deep indigo border of polychrome palmettes and dense scrolling flowerhead and leafy vine between ivory meandering palmette vine stripes, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe, localised areas of slight wear, purple selvage
7ft.1in. x 4ft.5in. (215cm. x 135cm.)