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SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
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A QASHQAI "MILLE FLEURS" PRAYER RUG
SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with a flower-vase issuing dense flowering vine, a cusped brick-red panel below with floral sprays flanked by stylised hooked cypress trees, the cusped brick-red mihrab arch with floral sprays and indigo similar panels, in a chocolate-brown angular flowering vine border between mustard-yellow similar stripes, woven with purple silk wefts, original multicoloured selvages, localised areas of wear
6ft.10in. x 5ft.2in. (209cm. x 157cm.)
SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with a flower-vase issuing dense flowering vine, a cusped brick-red panel below with floral sprays flanked by stylised hooked cypress trees, the cusped brick-red mihrab arch with floral sprays and indigo similar panels, in a chocolate-brown angular flowering vine border between mustard-yellow similar stripes, woven with purple silk wefts, original multicoloured selvages, localised areas of wear
6ft.10in. x 5ft.2in. (209cm. x 157cm.)
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