NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
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A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The pale shaded rust field with stylised angular floral trees in each corner flanking a large serrated and indented pale dusty pink medallion with hooked palmette pendants containing angular flowerhead and leafy vine enclosing a shaded rust floral centrepiece with pendants, the sandy yellow spandrels with angular flowering vine linked along each side by alternating pink and yellow panels, some containing brief stylised illegible inscriptions, a few minute similar panels within the field, in a broad ivory border of stylised polychrome turtle-palmettes and angular floral and leafy vine between shaded rust meandering floral vine stripes, slight loss of outer stripe at each end
13ft.2in. x 9ft.7in. (401cm. x 291cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The pale shaded rust field with stylised angular floral trees in each corner flanking a large serrated and indented pale dusty pink medallion with hooked palmette pendants containing angular flowerhead and leafy vine enclosing a shaded rust floral centrepiece with pendants, the sandy yellow spandrels with angular flowering vine linked along each side by alternating pink and yellow panels, some containing brief stylised illegible inscriptions, a few minute similar panels within the field, in a broad ivory border of stylised polychrome turtle-palmettes and angular floral and leafy vine between shaded rust meandering floral vine stripes, slight loss of outer stripe at each end
13ft.2in. x 9ft.7in. (401cm. x 291cm.)