Lot Essay
This carpet was probably woven in the Tudeshk workshops. It has an unusually wide selection of colours for carpets of this origin.
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1940
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A PART SILK NAIN CARPET
Central Persia, circa 1940
The cornflower-blue field with an overall design of palmettes, serrated leaves, curling "ostrich feathers" and floral tendrils, in an ivory border of palmettes and flowering vine between ivory interlaced arabesque, light blue floral meander and minor spiralling ribbon and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain outer red stripe, a short kilim strip at each end, excellent condition
15ft.8in. x 10ft.5in. (476cm. x 317cm.)
Central Persia, circa 1940
The cornflower-blue field with an overall design of palmettes, serrated leaves, curling "ostrich feathers" and floral tendrils, in an ivory border of palmettes and flowering vine between ivory interlaced arabesque, light blue floral meander and minor spiralling ribbon and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain outer red stripe, a short kilim strip at each end, excellent condition
15ft.8in. x 10ft.5in. (476cm. x 317cm.)
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