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A fine Tabriz carpet
the shaded brick-red field with polychrome serrated palmettes issuing floral and leafy sprays within animals and perching birds around stylised ivory and indigo panelled medallion with bold mosque lamp pendants containing polychrome floral sprays and scrolling arabesques enclosing pistachio-green radiating flowerhead centrepiece, spandrels similar, in broad border of shaped floral and pictorial cartouches divided by rosettes and shaped panels between floral, meandering arabesques and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, outer plain stripe --499cm. x 344cm.(16ft.5in. x 11ft.4in.)
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the shaded brick-red field with polychrome serrated palmettes issuing floral and leafy sprays within animals and perching birds around stylised ivory and indigo panelled medallion with bold mosque lamp pendants containing polychrome floral sprays and scrolling arabesques enclosing pistachio-green radiating flowerhead centrepiece, spandrels similar, in broad border of shaped floral and pictorial cartouches divided by rosettes and shaped panels between floral, meandering arabesques and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, outer plain stripe --499cm. x 344cm.(16ft.5in. x 11ft.4in.)
See Front Cover Illustration