EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
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A SILK AND COTTON KASHAN RUG
EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The silvery cream field with a central column of palmettes issuing dense scrolling palmette, flowering and leafy vine with perching birds, in a shaded raspberry-pink border of meandering palmettes and leafy flowering vine between golden yellow floral meander and minor reciprocal stripes, plain outer indigo stripe, purple silk selvage, replaced fringes
6ft.8in. x 4ft.2in. (204cm. x 127cm.)
EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The silvery cream field with a central column of palmettes issuing dense scrolling palmette, flowering and leafy vine with perching birds, in a shaded raspberry-pink border of meandering palmettes and leafy flowering vine between golden yellow floral meander and minor reciprocal stripes, plain outer indigo stripe, purple silk selvage, replaced fringes
6ft.8in. x 4ft.2in. (204cm. x 127cm.)
Literature
Harrow, L.W. (ed.): Oriental Rugs from Private Collections, London, 1982, no.95.