Lot Essay
The inscription reads 'The work of the Bakhtiari for Hajji Khrosraw Khan'.
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
Details
AN INSCRIBED BAKHTIARI RUG
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
The yellow field with overall angular palmette and flowering vine with a palmette in each corner, the linked shaded blue spandrels similar, in an ivory border of palmette and angular flowerhead vine between brick-red similar stripes, outer mill-pattern and an ivory inscription stripe at one end
5ft.11in. x 4ft.6in. (180cm. x 137cm.)
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
The yellow field with overall angular palmette and flowering vine with a palmette in each corner, the linked shaded blue spandrels similar, in an ivory border of palmette and angular flowerhead vine between brick-red similar stripes, outer mill-pattern and an ivory inscription stripe at one end
5ft.11in. x 4ft.6in. (180cm. x 137cm.)
Provenance
From a private Persian collection, see lot 466.