Antique Indian Lahore Large Carpet
No. 24155
India, Early 20th Century
11 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft.
(3.50 x 4.84 m)
A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The warm camel-dusty rose field presents a spacious version of the allover Herati pattern, with offset columns of open diamonds, palmettes and rosettes, and paired, circling sickle leaves. The light brown main border alternates in-and-out palmettes supported by pairs of barbed sickle leaves. Oblique corner palmettes in the border enhance the pattern flow.
