A HERIZ CARPET

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

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A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The shaded light brick-red field with angular tendrils issuing palmettes around a bold cusped indigo octafoil medallion containing large palmettes radiating from a central rosette, the linked ivory and brick-red spandrels with angular palmette vine, in a light brick-red polychrome turtle-palmette and flowering vine border between indigo flowerhead and minor stripes, light even wear, minute spot of repiling, slight loss at each end, selvages replaced
12ft.6in. x 9ft.6in. (382cm. x 289cm.)