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CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
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A KASHAN "MOHTASHAM" CARPET
Central Persia, circa 1890
The raspberry-red field with flowering palmettes and vine encircling a cusped indigo medallion with an ice-blue centre containing similar floral designs and an ivory stylised floral centrepiece, the ivory spandrels with various stylised flowering trees with perching birds, in a rust-red border of flowering vase and shrub design contained under a curved ivory flowering vine border between ivory and indigo floral meander stripes, areas of minor wear, loss of fringes at both ends, selvages rebound, restored cut along width
10ft.4in. x 7ft.8in. (314cm. x 234cm.)
Central Persia, circa 1890
The raspberry-red field with flowering palmettes and vine encircling a cusped indigo medallion with an ice-blue centre containing similar floral designs and an ivory stylised floral centrepiece, the ivory spandrels with various stylised flowering trees with perching birds, in a rust-red border of flowering vase and shrub design contained under a curved ivory flowering vine border between ivory and indigo floral meander stripes, areas of minor wear, loss of fringes at both ends, selvages rebound, restored cut along width
10ft.4in. x 7ft.8in. (314cm. x 234cm.)
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