Description
PERSIAN
Kirman made of silky lamb’s wool velvet, known as ‘kork’, on a cotton backing. A wine-red field decorated with stylised mosaic-like floral palmette scrolls framing nine rows of ruby-coloured floral medallions in the shape of stylised diamonds, and borders, the main one being garnet-coloured and decorated with motifs reminiscent of the central field.
Ravar, Kerman province, south-east Iran
Late 19th–early 20th century
433 cm x 306 cm.
(Restorations)
Bibliography:
- Andrew Middleton (A World Tour of Rugs),
- Kayson Sadrabadi (The Art of Oriental Rugs),
- Oriental Rugs (Peter F. Stone)
See original version (French)
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Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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