Antique Persian Bidjar Room Size Carpet
No. 30315
Persia, Early 20th Century
10 ft. 10 in. x 14 ft. 2 in.
(3.28 x 4.28 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The sienna field shows synchronized rows of volutes in straw, pale blue and dark brown. The volutes are grouped in fours in a columnar manner. The field is considerably abrashed. The slate border alternates petal palmettes and more open palmettes, with well-defined corner solutions. The ivory minors both show small, bracketed rosettes in a barbed trapezoidal meander.
