A TABRIZ CARPET of 'Portuguese' design, the field with light blue wavy lines and a variety of boats containing European figures around a concentric medallion of fiery angular outline executed in lemon-yellow, pale grey, light blue, salmon-pink, indigo and tomato-red containing palmette and flowering vine, in a broad border of flowering vine around linked indigo arabesques between light blue and ivory palmette vine stripes | Christie's

Lot 555

555

A TABRIZ CARPET of 'Portuguese' design, the field with light blue wavy lines and a variety of boats containing European figures around a concentric medallion of fiery angular outline executed in lemon-yellow, pale grey, light blue, salmon-pink, indigo and tomato-red containing palmette and flowering vine, in a broad border of flowering vine around linked indigo arabesques between light blue and ivory palmette vine stripes

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A TABRIZ CARPET of 'Portuguese' design, the field with light blue wavy lines and a variety of boats containing European figures around a concentric medallion of fiery angular outline executed in lemon-yellow, pale grey, light blue, salmon-pink, indigo and tomato-red containing palmette and flowering vine, in a broad border of flowering vine around linked indigo arabesques between light blue and ivory palmette vine stripes
18ft.2in. x 10ft.2in. (543cm. x 296cm.)

Lot Essay

This carpet was used in Westminster Abbey during the coronation of King George V in 1911.
The design is a direct copy of the 'Portuguese' carpet now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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