Persian Tabriz Pictorial Rug
No. 29077
Persia, 21st Century
0 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. 10 in.
(0.25 x 0.55 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. This “currency mat” depicts the 50 toman note, with a bust length portrait of Reza Shah at the right in ceremonial uniform, and a blank space to the left. Today 50 tomans is worth less than nothing.
