SOUTH EAST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A KIRMAN CARPET
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The ivory field with a dense profusion of scrolling floral and leafy vine scattered with paired combat animals around a central raspberry-red medallion with cartouche and palmette pendants containing scrolling floral vine and arabesques linking floral palmettes and a light blue centrepiece with perching birds, the indigo cusped spandrels with scrolling floral vine containing human figures and birds, in a broad raspberry-red border of floral vine, palmettes, serrated leaves and paired animal combat groups between ivory and light blue floral vine and narrow lozenge stripes, plain ivory outer stripe, areas of localised wear
14ft.5in. x 11ft.10in. (439cm. x 360cm.)
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The ivory field with a dense profusion of scrolling floral and leafy vine scattered with paired combat animals around a central raspberry-red medallion with cartouche and palmette pendants containing scrolling floral vine and arabesques linking floral palmettes and a light blue centrepiece with perching birds, the indigo cusped spandrels with scrolling floral vine containing human figures and birds, in a broad raspberry-red border of floral vine, palmettes, serrated leaves and paired animal combat groups between ivory and light blue floral vine and narrow lozenge stripes, plain ivory outer stripe, areas of localised wear
14ft.5in. x 11ft.10in. (439cm. x 360cm.)