Vintage Persian Malayer Throw Rug
No. 32052
Persia, Mid-20th Century
3 ft. 9 in. x 5 ft. 10 in.
(1.14 x 1.78 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The buff field is almost entirely obscured by three columns of connected, fringed lozenges and two columns of right-angled paired leaf modules, in a Malayer version of the Herati design. Light blue highlights appear throughout. The straw strip-style border features contorted triangular, stylized palmettes.
