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The inscription cartouche reads A'ali husrat Sultan Ahmad Shah Qajar.
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CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1910
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A KASHAN PICTORIAL RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1910
The ivory field containing the seated figure of Ahmad Shah with silk highlights flanked on either side by a spiralling column, a carpet of alternately facing boteh below and an pea-green canopy above supporting a brick-red arch filled with arabesques, flowering vine and an inscription cartouche, in an indigo border with a vase at each corner issuing scrolling flowering vine with perching birds between indigo floral meander and narrow reciprocal skittle-pattern minor stripes, good pile throughout with lustrous wool, minute surface stains, overall good condition
6ft.4in. x 4ft.3in. (193cm. x 130cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1910
The ivory field containing the seated figure of Ahmad Shah with silk highlights flanked on either side by a spiralling column, a carpet of alternately facing boteh below and an pea-green canopy above supporting a brick-red arch filled with arabesques, flowering vine and an inscription cartouche, in an indigo border with a vase at each corner issuing scrolling flowering vine with perching birds between indigo floral meander and narrow reciprocal skittle-pattern minor stripes, good pile throughout with lustrous wool, minute surface stains, overall good condition
6ft.4in. x 4ft.3in. (193cm. x 130cm.)
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