NORTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
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A SIGNED MESHED CARPET
NORTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
The burgundy field with a dense profusion of palmettes and polychrome floral and leafy vine around a large cusped indigo medallion with palmette pendants containing similar palmette, flowering and leafy vine around a floral rosette centrepiece, the cusped indigo spandrels similar, inner reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe, in a shaded indigo border of palmettes and scrolling meandering floral and leafy vine between ivory, light blue and mustard-yellow floral vine stripes, outer barber-pole and plain burgundy stripes, inscription cartouche signed Mardian at one end
20ft.8in. x 14ft.4in. (628cm. x 436cm.)
NORTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920
The burgundy field with a dense profusion of palmettes and polychrome floral and leafy vine around a large cusped indigo medallion with palmette pendants containing similar palmette, flowering and leafy vine around a floral rosette centrepiece, the cusped indigo spandrels similar, inner reciprocal skittle-pattern stripe, in a shaded indigo border of palmettes and scrolling meandering floral and leafy vine between ivory, light blue and mustard-yellow floral vine stripes, outer barber-pole and plain burgundy stripes, inscription cartouche signed Mardian at one end
20ft.8in. x 14ft.4in. (628cm. x 436cm.)