Christie's (London)
Rugs and Carpets -- Battilossi Tappeti d'Antiquariato
Wednesday, 11 February, 1998
LOT 120
A KIRMANSHAH CARPET
WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
The shaded pale sandy yellow field with diagonal rows cypress trees flanked by a variety of other flowering trees and shrubs together with paired perching birds, black currant-red flowerhead and serrated leaf border between charcoal-black angular floral and minor raspberry-red and sandy yellow similar stripes, corroded black, a few areas of slight wear.
16ft.8in. x8ft.4in. (507cm. x253cm.)
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale, Rippon Boswell & Co.: Grosse Herbst-Auktion, Wiesbaden, 18 November 1989, lot 67.
Est: £12,000-16,000 US$20,000-$26,000
Did not sell
