Antique Persian Malayer Gallery Carpet
No. 20797
Persia, Early 20th Century
6 ft. 5 in. x 17 ft. 7 in.
(1.94 x 5.32 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The panel-abrashed medium grey-brown field features a three-column version of the Harshang (“Crab”) allover design, with ragged palmettes, tilted ragged palmettes, cogwheel rosettes, and ogives sprouting four gooseneck flowers, closely adhering to the original 18th-century design. The strip-style border, abrashed in shades of brown and khaki, displays rosettes and sickle leaves.
