Antique Persian Mahal Room Size Carpet
No. 26492
Persia, Early 20th Century
11 ft. 9 in. x 14 ft.
(3.55 x 4.23 m)
A wool pile of asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The camel-straw field shows an all over pattern of ragged cypress palmettes, ragged palmettes, large and bold bitonal lancet leaves, smaller palmettes and rosettes, balanced laterally and moving upward. The ecru border is balanced and in strip style with octogrammes and rosettes. A light colored, but not pale or reduced palette carpet.
