The field design of this carpet is a stifly rendered herati pattern, complete with all the component motifs. The border however obviously derives from the Isfahan carpets of the seventeenth century. This identical border, complete with guard stripes is found on a carpet illustrated by Grote-Hasenbalg (Werner: Der Orientteppiche, seine Geschichte und seine Kultur, Berlin, 1922, Vol III, pl.65). That example also shares the same tonality including the brick tint to the red field. It must be a product of the same workshop. Another example which appears to be closely related was exhibited in Hamburg (Austellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.107, pp.90-91, pl.36). This piece, formerly also in the Bernheimer collection, was dated in the exhibition catalogue to circa 1700.
All three carpets have field designs which are of the Central or East Persian origin. The stiff drawing and the slightly muted colours both argue for a north west Persian centre of production. The weave helps place them in the eighteenth century, probably making them the forerunners of the furnishing Mahal carpets of the latter part of the last century.