Antique Persian Bidjar Room Size Carpet
No. 31651
Persia, Early 20th Century
9 ft. 2 in. x 14 ft. 6 in.
(2.77 x 4.38 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a wool foundation. The light slate blue-grey field shows three complete echelons of paired giant forked ecru arabesques with secondary small palmettes, floret stems and branching shrubs in brown and ecru tones. The rich red strip style border shows bold, reversing turtle palmettes with sandy-straw forked edges in the best Bidjar manner. Both minor ecru borders feature reversing simple palmettes.
