A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The ivory field with angular floral sprays around a large shaded blue octafoil medallion with pendants containing large palmettes around a concentric salmon-pink, light blue and brick-red rosette centrepiece, the shaded brick-red spandrels with floral motifs and part-medallions, in a shaded blue turtle-palmette and angular flowering vine border between salmon-pink floral meander stripes, even wear
12ft.11in. x 9ft.4in. (394cm. x 283cm.)