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A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Price Realized
$27,316
Sale Information
Christies SALE 6423 —
DAVIDE HALEVIM : MAGNIFICENT
CARPETS & TAPESTRIES
14 February 2001
London, King Street
A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The shaded brick-red
field scattered with minor motifs and stylised birds around an ivory
stepped panel containing birds, boteh and hooked leaves containing a
shaded medium blue medallion with pendants enclosing a palmette
centrepiece issuing stylised panels and flowering vine, the shaded blue
stepped spandrels containing angular vine and boteh, in an ivory border of
polychrome rosette panels flanked by serrated leaves and angular vine
meander between shaded blue zigzag, pale pink rosette and barber-pole
stripes, slight loss at each end, minor areas of repiling
13ft.5in. x
10ft.10in. (410cm. x 330cm.)
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