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A PAIR OF KHAMSEH RUGS
WEST PERSIA, LAST QUARTER OF 19TH CENTURY
The deep indigo field each with stylised polychrome birds, angular palmette vine, animals, flowerheads and S-motifs around three serrated and linked lozenge pole-medallions containing similar motifs, striped linked flowering vine spandrels, in a rust-red border of polychrome flowerheads, hooked boteh and angular vine, between light blue meandering flowerhead vine stripes, outer barber-pole stripes, one with a chequered floral skirt at each end, the other with a double chequered floral skirt at one end
7ft.1in. x 4ft.6in. (215cm. x 137cm.) and
7ft.7in. x 4ft.5in. (231cm. x 135cm.) (2)
WEST PERSIA, LAST QUARTER OF 19TH CENTURY
The deep indigo field each with stylised polychrome birds, angular palmette vine, animals, flowerheads and S-motifs around three serrated and linked lozenge pole-medallions containing similar motifs, striped linked flowering vine spandrels, in a rust-red border of polychrome flowerheads, hooked boteh and angular vine, between light blue meandering flowerhead vine stripes, outer barber-pole stripes, one with a chequered floral skirt at each end, the other with a double chequered floral skirt at one end
7ft.1in. x 4ft.6in. (215cm. x 137cm.) and
7ft.7in. x 4ft.5in. (231cm. x 135cm.) (2)