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A SILK AND METAL THREAD TABRIZ RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The brick-red field with an asymmetric design of a variety of flowering trees together with numerous large birds, in an abrashed pistachio-green and pale apricot border of palmettes containing grotesque faces linked by flowering and fruiting vine with leaves which resemble leopards, between an inner border of meandering leafy vine issuing grotesque masks and an outer ivory stripe of flowerheads and animals, very slight damages
7ft.9in. x 5ft.4in. (236cm. x 163cm.)