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an antique serapi carpet
The shaded rust field with angular leafy vine and hooked palmettes around large ivory stepped medallions with hooked palmette pendants, containing polychrome floral panels and angular palmettes, enclosing a shaped rust panel with a radiating floral centre piece, light blue and rust linked spandrels similar, within a broad camel border of bold polychrome palmettes and angular floral vine between rust and light blue angular floral vine stripes, areas of wear, slight loss at one end
350cm. x 294cm.
The shaded rust field with angular leafy vine and hooked palmettes around large ivory stepped medallions with hooked palmette pendants, containing polychrome floral panels and angular palmettes, enclosing a shaped rust panel with a radiating floral centre piece, light blue and rust linked spandrels similar, within a broad camel border of bold polychrome palmettes and angular floral vine between rust and light blue angular floral vine stripes, areas of wear, slight loss at one end
350cm. x 294cm.