A SULTANABAD CARPET
A SULTANABAD CARPET

WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

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A SULTANABAD CARPET
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The shaded indigo field with an allover design of polychrome palmettes, serrated acanthus leaves and flowering vine, in a red border containing polychrome turtle-palmettes and flowering vine between ivory and golden floral meander and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain outer indigo stripe, areas of moth damage at one end, localised areas of wear, slight loss at one end
12ft.2in. x 12ft.1in. (370cm. x 368cm.)