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A SILK TABRIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1854
The rust-red field with a stylised pond with swimming fish in foreground issuing a large central shaded blue tree with a variety of human figures including Nasr al-Din Shah both enthroned and on horseback, Layla and Majnun, Sheikh Sana'an and Bahram Gur, together with animals, large serrated leaves, flowerheads and perching birds, in a broad shaded blue turtle-palmette and scrolling floral and leafy vine border between ice-blue angular flowerhead vine and flowerhead narrow stripes, plain broad outer rust-red stripe, some wear and small repair
12ft.8in. x 9ft. (387cm. 274cm.)
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1854
The rust-red field with a stylised pond with swimming fish in foreground issuing a large central shaded blue tree with a variety of human figures including Nasr al-Din Shah both enthroned and on horseback, Layla and Majnun, Sheikh Sana'an and Bahram Gur, together with animals, large serrated leaves, flowerheads and perching birds, in a broad shaded blue turtle-palmette and scrolling floral and leafy vine border between ice-blue angular flowerhead vine and flowerhead narrow stripes, plain broad outer rust-red stripe, some wear and small repair
12ft.8in. x 9ft. (387cm. 274cm.)