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The small inscriptions in the field read "'Amal-i Karkhaneh ..... 9202"
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
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A KASHAN 'MOCHTASHAM' CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The ivory field with dense scrolling tendrils issuing floral sprays and palmettes around a central cusped indigo and brick-red floral lozenge medallion with rosette centrepiece, a pendant above and below, flanked on each side by two small light blue palmette panels, two of these with brief naskh inscription below, the large linked indigo spandrels with similar dense flowering vine issuing from red corner cartouches, in an indigo border of a reciprocal arcade containing floral sprays between pale pistachio-green and minor ivory floral meander stripes, outer reciprocal Y-pattern stripe, very slight wear in a few places
10ft.9in. x 7ft.6in. (326cm. x 228cm.)
CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The ivory field with dense scrolling tendrils issuing floral sprays and palmettes around a central cusped indigo and brick-red floral lozenge medallion with rosette centrepiece, a pendant above and below, flanked on each side by two small light blue palmette panels, two of these with brief naskh inscription below, the large linked indigo spandrels with similar dense flowering vine issuing from red corner cartouches, in an indigo border of a reciprocal arcade containing floral sprays between pale pistachio-green and minor ivory floral meander stripes, outer reciprocal Y-pattern stripe, very slight wear in a few places
10ft.9in. x 7ft.6in. (326cm. x 228cm.)