CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
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A KASHAN 'MOCHTASHAM' CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The shaded brick-red field with dense scrolling palmette and flowering vine around a cusped shaded indigo similar medallion with pendants containing a cusped octafoil concentric red and ivory similar rosette, the scrolling ivory spandrels similar, in a shaded brick-red border of feathery palmettes linked by palmette and leafy vine between indigo flowerheads and serrated leaves, minor ivory floral meander and reciprocal skittle pattern stripes, a few areas showing light wear with minimal crude old repiling along creaselines
15ft.8in. x 10ft.3in (476cm. x 312cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The shaded brick-red field with dense scrolling palmette and flowering vine around a cusped shaded indigo similar medallion with pendants containing a cusped octafoil concentric red and ivory similar rosette, the scrolling ivory spandrels similar, in a shaded brick-red border of feathery palmettes linked by palmette and leafy vine between indigo flowerheads and serrated leaves, minor ivory floral meander and reciprocal skittle pattern stripes, a few areas showing light wear with minimal crude old repiling along creaselines
15ft.8in. x 10ft.3in (476cm. x 312cm.)