A MAHAL CARPET
SULTANABAD REGION, WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The terracotta-red field with an overall design of flower heads, palmettes and linked leafy vine, in a shaded sky-blue palmette and saz leaf border, uneven low pile, localised repiling and some associated tinting, reduced in length, scattered repairs, selvages rebound
13 ft. 1 in. x 13 ft. 6 in. (402 x 417 cm.)
A MAHAL CARPET
SULTANABAD REGION, WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900
The terracotta-red field with an overall design of flower heads, palmettes and linked leafy vine, in a shaded sky-blue palmette and saz leaf border, uneven low pile, localised repiling and some associated tinting, reduced in length, scattered repairs, selvages rebound
13 ft. 1 in. x 13 ft. 6 in. (402 x 417 cm.)