Lot Essay
The main inscription cartouche is a Persian couplet. The two flanking panels probably originally had a date.
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NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
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A SILK HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with interlaced strapwork and scrolling arabesques ending in split palmettes and flowering vine around a cusped rust-red medallion with similar interlaced arabesques around an ivory floral centrepiece, in an ivory palmette, flowerhead and scrolling vine border with a cartouche at one end between rust-red and ivory floral meander stripes, short braided kilim strip at one end, areas of repair and localised minor wear, foundation slightly dry, selvages rebound
9ft.5in. x 7ft.8in. (286cm. x 234cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with interlaced strapwork and scrolling arabesques ending in split palmettes and flowering vine around a cusped rust-red medallion with similar interlaced arabesques around an ivory floral centrepiece, in an ivory palmette, flowerhead and scrolling vine border with a cartouche at one end between rust-red and ivory floral meander stripes, short braided kilim strip at one end, areas of repair and localised minor wear, foundation slightly dry, selvages rebound
9ft.5in. x 7ft.8in. (286cm. x 234cm.)
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