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A SILK HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, DATED 14 RAJAB AH 1285/31 OCTOBER
1868 AD
Price Realized $59,014
Sale Information
Christies SALE 6435 —
ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS
3 May 2001
London, King Street
Lot Description
A SILK HERIZ CARPET
North West Persia, dated 14
Rajab AH 1285/31 October 1868 AD
The ivory field with a garden design
of channels of angular waves around bold serrated floral and inscription
cartouches containing Persian verses dividing six panels of four
polychrome squares containing floral panels and stylised trees, in a
shaded rust-red border of turtle-palmettes and floral meander together
with inscription cartouches containing further verses and the date,
between ivory and light rust delicate floral meander stripes, outer
barber-pole and plain stripes
9ft.8in. x 6ft.4in. (294cm. x 193cm.)
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