A LARGE TABRIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1890
The rust-red field with a variety of floral sprays, paired cypress trees and perching birds around a cusped concentric indigo and ivory medallion with scrolling arabesques enclosing floral sprays, the spandrels similar, in an indigo "Shah Abbas", palmette, meandering arabesque and flowering vine border between ivory similar and minor ice-blue floral meander and barber-pole stripes, outer plain rust-red stripe, a few areas of slight wear, very slight stain and small repair in one corner
22ft.1in. x 15ft.4in. (673cm. x 466cm.)