Sale 9308
New York
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7 October 1999
Price realised
USD 25,300
Estimate
A HERIZ CARPET Northwest Persia, First Quarter 20th Century The brick red field with a polychrome weeping willow tree and blossom trellis overall within a mocha rosette and serrated leaf border Approximately 12ft. 6in. x 9ft. 5in. (381cm. x 287cm.)
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