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A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Price Realized
$98,634
Sale Information
Christies SALE 6052 —
THE JOHN REID COLLECTION
17 - 18 December 1998
London, King Street
Lot Description
A HERIZ CARPET
North West Persia, Late 19th Century
The shaded brick-red field with an overall design of angular
palmettes, flowerheads and leafy vine, with stylised serrated leaves
enclosing palmettes in horizontal rows, in a broad sandy yellow
turtle-palmette angular flowerhead vine border between ivory angular
palmette vine and shaded blue flowerhead vine stripes, plain outer shaded
brick-red stripe
23ft.7in. x 15ft.2in. (718cm. x 461cm.)
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