Lot 22

AN ISFAHAN RUG
CENTRAL PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY

The wine-red field with a counterposed design of spiralling tendrils issuing flowerheads and larger palmettes together with serrated leaves and cloudband, in a deep sea-green border of palmettes linked by delicate flowering and leafy tendrils between inner lappet and outer linked roundels and minor stripes, even wear, very slight loss of outer stripe, minimal repair and repiling.
7ft.x4ft.8in. (213cm.x142cm.)

PROVENANCE: Anon. sale, Rippon Boswell & Co.: Fruhjahrsauktion, 5 May 1990, lot 138

Est.: £15,000-20,000, US$25,000-33,000

Sold for £23,000

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