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A KASHAN PICTORIAL RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900-10
The ivory ground depicting the stone relief at Behistun, with a row of human captives linked together by a rope to their necks, facing king Darius and attendants, a row of cuneiform and nasta'liq inscription cartouches below and above, Ahuramazda above surrounded by animals in a garden with a mountain range behind, the shaded indigo border with angular floral vine linking ivory floral and inscription cartouches, between ivory part lozenge and narrow zigzag stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe
7ft.1in. x 4ft.7in. (215cm. x 140cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900-10
The ivory ground depicting the stone relief at Behistun, with a row of human captives linked together by a rope to their necks, facing king Darius and attendants, a row of cuneiform and nasta'liq inscription cartouches below and above, Ahuramazda above surrounded by animals in a garden with a mountain range behind, the shaded indigo border with angular floral vine linking ivory floral and inscription cartouches, between ivory part lozenge and narrow zigzag stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe
7ft.1in. x 4ft.7in. (215cm. x 140cm.)