A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The shaded light rust field with stylised serrated palmettes and leafy sprays around a large shaded blue stepped medallion with leafy sprays issuing from a pink medallion with similar motifs around a small medallion, large palmette pendants above and below, the light blue spandrels with leafy motifs around similar part-medallions, in a shaded camel turtle-palmette and flowering vine border between shaded pink and ivory floral stripes, general wear, minimal traces of old tinting, slight loss at each end
18ft.2in. x 12ft.8in. (553cm. x 387cm.)