CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
Details
A KASHAN MOCHTASHAM CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded ivory field with a dense profusion of angular polychrome palmette and floral vine around a central shaded cusped indigo medallion with double palmette pendants containing angular floral vine enclosing concentric shaded buff and brick-red similar floral lozenges, the shaded brick-red, indigo and ivory spandrels similar, in a shaded indigo border of palmettes and linked by delicate flowering vine between brick-red meandering floral and ivory similar stripes outer reciprocal trefoil and arrow motif stripes
13ft.3in. x 9ft.11in. (403cm. x 302cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded ivory field with a dense profusion of angular polychrome palmette and floral vine around a central shaded cusped indigo medallion with double palmette pendants containing angular floral vine enclosing concentric shaded buff and brick-red similar floral lozenges, the shaded brick-red, indigo and ivory spandrels similar, in a shaded indigo border of palmettes and linked by delicate flowering vine between brick-red meandering floral and ivory similar stripes outer reciprocal trefoil and arrow motif stripes
13ft.3in. x 9ft.11in. (403cm. x 302cm.)
Provenance
From a private Persian collection, see lot 454