Lot Essay
This carpet represents the next stage of development of the red ground spiral tendril and palmette carpet from the preceding lot. It is much more like most of the carpets depicting in European paintings of the seventeenth century. The wool is still soft, but there is not the same variety of colour nor quite the complexity of design. Nevertheless it is still beautifully proportioned and also in good condition for the age. It is probably a product of Persia although there are some authorities who would maintain this is representative of one of the earliest Indian groups of the type.