A BIDJAR CARPET
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded rust field with columns of palmettes and flowerheads linked by light blue and green angular arabesques, in a shaded indigo border of polychrome palmettes issuing stylised animal-heads and meandering leafy vine between ivory, dusty pink and light blue meandering floral vine stripes, plain rust outer stripe, ends complete
16ft.6in. x 12ft. (502cm. x 366cm.)