Antique Persian Malayer Pictorial Rug
No. 25857
Persia, Early 20th Century
3 ft. 2 in. x 6 ft. 3 in.
(0.96 x 1.89 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The navy ground shows a montage of patterns including paired doves, a peacock, a heavily bejeweled human figure, a man-headed Achaemenian-style lion, a vase and ebullient flower. and a lion/deer combat. Below is a salmon-rose panel with palmettes and above is a navy panel with fractional botehs. Narrow green border with palmettes on a meander.
