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THIS AND THE FOLLOWING LOT FORM PART OF A COLLECTION BUILT UP IN IRAN DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S. SINCE THEN THEY HAVE BEEN IN STORAGE IN EUROPE.
A TABRIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
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A TABRIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The plain brick-red field around a central stepped mole-brown medallion with palmette pendants containing dense herati pattern enclosing a central ivory stepped lozenge with palmettes, floral vine and an ice blue flowerhead centrepiece, the mole-brown and ivory stepped linked spandrels similar, in a brick-red border of scrolling palmette and floral vine between mole-brown and ivory floral vine stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe
19ft.1in. x 12ft.2in. (581cm. x 370cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The plain brick-red field around a central stepped mole-brown medallion with palmette pendants containing dense herati pattern enclosing a central ivory stepped lozenge with palmettes, floral vine and an ice blue flowerhead centrepiece, the mole-brown and ivory stepped linked spandrels similar, in a brick-red border of scrolling palmette and floral vine between mole-brown and ivory floral vine stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe
19ft.1in. x 12ft.2in. (581cm. x 370cm.)