THIS LOT AND A NUMBER OF SUBSEQUENT LOTS FORM A COLLECTION BUILT UP IN IRAN DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S. SINCE THEN THEY HAVE BEEN IN STORAGE IN EUROPE.
A SILK TABRIZ PRAYER RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
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A SILK TABRIZ PRAYER RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The ivory field with a stylised palmette and hanging floral spray above flanked by a pair of part columns and surrounded by an inner row of delicate flowerheads, the pistachio-green mihrab arch above containing an angular floral stem vine, a fox-brown floral panel above and below, in an ivory palmette and serrated leaf vine border between pistachio-green angular vine and ivory floral floral stripes, plain ivory outer stripe
5ft.8in. x 3ft.11in. (173cm. x 119cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The ivory field with a stylised palmette and hanging floral spray above flanked by a pair of part columns and surrounded by an inner row of delicate flowerheads, the pistachio-green mihrab arch above containing an angular floral stem vine, a fox-brown floral panel above and below, in an ivory palmette and serrated leaf vine border between pistachio-green angular vine and ivory floral floral stripes, plain ivory outer stripe
5ft.8in. x 3ft.11in. (173cm. x 119cm.)