This is one of three fragments from the same carpet. One of the others, originally forming the top left hand corner of the carpet, is in the Museum fr Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main, while the other, smaller, was formerly in the Baranovicz Collection. The design has much in common with the products of North West Persia, a fragment of such a carpet being offered in this sale as lot ***, complete with animal combat groups, perching birds, pomegranite and cypress trees on a dark indigo ground. The typical 'vase' structure however encouraged May Beattie to attribute it to Kirman, relating the design to motifs found in Sanguszko carpets, being particularly close to the Berlin 'Sanguszko' carpet damaged in the second World War (Erdmann, K.: Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, fig.154, p.128). The colours also, particularly with the pink and blue combination of the pomegranites, are close to vase carpets of more typical designs.