The Property of MRS BARBARA PIASECKA JOHNSON
A FINE ANTIQUE AGRA CARPET, the burgundy field with delicate trailing flowering tendrils forming a diagonal lattice around a variety of lozenge shaped and linked cruciform ivory panels containing palmettes and angular flowering vine, in a light blue palmette and meandering split palmette border between ivory and golden yellow meandering flowering vine stripes (areas of slight wear, very slight tinting, re-selvedged)

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A FINE ANTIQUE AGRA CARPET, the burgundy field with delicate trailing flowering tendrils forming a diagonal lattice around a variety of lozenge shaped and linked cruciform ivory panels containing palmettes and angular flowering vine, in a light blue palmette and meandering split palmette border between ivory and golden yellow meandering flowering vine stripes (areas of slight wear, very slight tinting, re-selvedged)
23ft.7in. x 14ft.10in. (719cm. x 452cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale Sotheby's London, 12 October 1988, lot 512
Mrs Barbara Piasecka Johnson

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