Sale 6375
London
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12 October 2000
Price realised
GBP 11,750
Estimate
A HERIZ CARPET NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890 The brick-red field around a large central shaded indigo medallion with pendants issuing angular flowering vine, enclosing an ivory rosette centrepiece issuing bold palmettes and flowering vine, shaded blue spandrels similar, in a shaded brick-red border of polychrome rosettes and angular flowering and leafy vine between ivory floral meander stripes, plain outer brick-red stripe, slight areas of wear, slight loss at one end 12ft.10in. x 9ft.4in. (392cm. x 283cm.)
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