Lot Essay
The cartoon for the border of this carpet, signed by the well-known artist Sani' Humayun, was sold in these Rooms, 18 October 1994, lot 103
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A KIRMAN PICTORIAL CARPET
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The field depicting various animal groups with human figures tending the animals and at work in the fields, surrounded by tents, flowering trees, flowering plants and a pond with swimming ducks and a stylised village above, in a broad similar pictorial border between ivory human heads flanked by perching birds and delicate flowerhead stripes, plain burgundy outer stripe, negligible areas of wear
12ft.4in x 8ft.4in (376cm. x 253cm.)
SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The field depicting various animal groups with human figures tending the animals and at work in the fields, surrounded by tents, flowering trees, flowering plants and a pond with swimming ducks and a stylised village above, in a broad similar pictorial border between ivory human heads flanked by perching birds and delicate flowerhead stripes, plain burgundy outer stripe, negligible areas of wear
12ft.4in x 8ft.4in (376cm. x 253cm.)