Christie's (London)
Rugs and Carpets -- Battilossi Tappeti d'Antiquariato
Wednesday, 11 February, 1998

Lot 65

A HERIZ CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1880

The ivory field scattered with small floral motifs around a large indigo shaped panel containing a cusped sandy yellow medallion with flowerheads, radiating palmettes and multiple angular pendants, the linked shaded light blue spandrels with small flowerheads around stylised red arabesque panels, in a shaded brick-red border of meandering tendrils overlaying delicate flowering vine between brick-red angular floral and ice-blue minor similar stripes, some wear, small areas of repiling, small repairs.

12ft.6in. x9ft.9in. (382cm. x296cm.)

Est.: £12,000-16,000, US$20,000-26,000

Did not sell

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