Lot Essay
A related silk Bakhtiari rug was sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1995, Lot 610.
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A SILK BAKHTIARI RUG
PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The blackcurrant-red field with a dense profusion of stylised trees and and various floral motifs around three columns of six pictorial roundels depicting rulers from antiquity, Khusraw discovering Shirin bathing, Leyla and Majnun, Sheikh Sana'an and the pigs, Bahram Gur hunting, and Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, in an ivory border of polychrome linked floral panels, a signature cartouche at one end, between charcoal-black and golden yellow zigzag, floral and barber-pole stripes, slight wear, polychrome silk wefts
6ft.4in. x 3ft.11in. (193cm. x 119cm.)
PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The blackcurrant-red field with a dense profusion of stylised trees and and various floral motifs around three columns of six pictorial roundels depicting rulers from antiquity, Khusraw discovering Shirin bathing, Leyla and Majnun, Sheikh Sana'an and the pigs, Bahram Gur hunting, and Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, in an ivory border of polychrome linked floral panels, a signature cartouche at one end, between charcoal-black and golden yellow zigzag, floral and barber-pole stripes, slight wear, polychrome silk wefts
6ft.4in. x 3ft.11in. (193cm. x 119cm.)