CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
Details
A KASHAN MOCHTASHAM RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded brick-red field with overall palmette and floral vine around a large indigo and brick-red cusped medallion with palmette pendants containing similar palmette and floral vine around a central indigo medallion with an ivory flowerhead centrepiece, the indigo cusped spandrels similar, in a shaded indigo border of palmette cartouches surrounded by dense floral vine between ivory and shaded yellow floral vine and lozenge stripes, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain brick-red stripes
6ft.10in. x 4ft.2in. (208cm. x 127cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded brick-red field with overall palmette and floral vine around a large indigo and brick-red cusped medallion with palmette pendants containing similar palmette and floral vine around a central indigo medallion with an ivory flowerhead centrepiece, the indigo cusped spandrels similar, in a shaded indigo border of palmette cartouches surrounded by dense floral vine between ivory and shaded yellow floral vine and lozenge stripes, outer reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain brick-red stripes
6ft.10in. x 4ft.2in. (208cm. x 127cm.)
Provenance
From a private Persian collection, see lot 454.