NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
Details
A SILK FEREGHAN RUG
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
The mole-grey field with bold polychrome floral vine and perching birds around a blackcurrant-red cusped medallion with palmette pendants containing arabesque vine issuing flowerheads and perching birds, stylised floral centrepiece, the blackcurrant-red and green spandrels similar, in a broad shaded blackcurrant-red border of bold palmettes and meandering floral vine between ice-blue floral vine and reciprocal X-motif stripes, multicoloured silk warp, areas of slight wear fading
6ft.4in. x 4ft.3in. (193cm. x 130cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870
The mole-grey field with bold polychrome floral vine and perching birds around a blackcurrant-red cusped medallion with palmette pendants containing arabesque vine issuing flowerheads and perching birds, stylised floral centrepiece, the blackcurrant-red and green spandrels similar, in a broad shaded blackcurrant-red border of bold palmettes and meandering floral vine between ice-blue floral vine and reciprocal X-motif stripes, multicoloured silk warp, areas of slight wear fading
6ft.4in. x 4ft.3in. (193cm. x 130cm.)
Provenance
From a private Persian collection, see lot 454