A HERIZ CARPET

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890

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A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded brick-red field with bold floral and palmette sprays issuing from a large stepped indigo medallion with massive palmette pendant containing angular vine and four camel arabesque panels radiating from the central camel octafoil medallion with palmettes issuing from the flowerhead centrepiece, in an indigo border scattered with small dense flowerheads around large rosettes alternating with palmettes between camel angular vine and light blue meandering flowering vine stripes, a few areas of very slight wear, slightly bleached at one end
18ft.1in. x 11ft.8in. (551cm. x 354cm.)