Antique Persian Mahal Large Carpet
No. 30037
Persia, Early 20th Century
10 ft. 8 in. x 16 ft. 11 in.
(3.23 x 5.12 m)
A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. Strong abrash is evident on the brownish-red field, which supports an interlocking ogival lattice featuring motifs of eight radiating palmettes, tilting petal palmettes, upright oval petal palmettes, and a few snaky cloud bands. The continuous beige border includes two types of reversing semi-geometric palmettes.
