Antique Persian Bibikabad Carpet
No. 8484
Persia, Early 20th Century
12 ft. 5 in. x 19 ft. 3 in.
(3.75 x 5.82 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. This unusually patterned Hamadan-area village carpet features a slate field with a relatively well-balanced, allover, moderately scaled Herati design. Herati patterns are rare in Bibikabad carpets of this period. The camel-colored strip-style main border displays a spacious version of the reversing turtle palmette pattern, flanked on each side by pairs of reversing fan palmette minors.
