SOUTH EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1910

The design of this rug is taken directly from a Louis XIV Gobelins tapestry from the series 'Les Sujets de la Fable' after the drawings by Raphael. Depicting 'La Danse d'une nymphe', the festive and tambourine-playing putti is set within a flowering landscape, while its guardian deity Pomona is courted by Vertumnus in the guise of a faun playing the pipes of the fertility deity Pan.