A semi-antique Kerman carpet, of Safavid 'vase' design, ca 484 x 291 cm
Around 1930s to the 1940s. A diagonally polychrome garden pattern with stylized flowers and trees. A red melange main border with a large palmette vine and small flowers.
Literature
Metropolitan museum of art & Dimand, Maurice Sven, Oriental rugs in the Metropolitan museum of art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, s 73, figure 103.
More information
The present directional lozenge 'vase' pattern can be seen on a carpet formerly in the Baltimore Museum of Art and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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