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A Heriz carpet, North-West Persia
The brick-red field with angular vine issuing polychrome hooked palmettes and leaves around large hooked and stepped indigo medallion with bold hooked palmette pendants containing palmette cartouches enclosing similar smaller medallion with bold radiating flowerhead central panel, light blue and terracotta spandrels similar, in an indigo border of polychrome palmettes, rosettes and angular leafy vine between light brick-red floral meander stripes, localised wear, slight loss at each end
317cm. x 228cm.(10ft.5in. x 7ft.6in.)
The brick-red field with angular vine issuing polychrome hooked palmettes and leaves around large hooked and stepped indigo medallion with bold hooked palmette pendants containing palmette cartouches enclosing similar smaller medallion with bold radiating flowerhead central panel, light blue and terracotta spandrels similar, in an indigo border of polychrome palmettes, rosettes and angular leafy vine between light brick-red floral meander stripes, localised wear, slight loss at each end
317cm. x 228cm.(10ft.5in. x 7ft.6in.)