ANTIQUE AGRA RUG
Origin: INDIA
Size: 12' 0" x 10' 4"
Rug ID # 494
Finely woven on a rich pomegranate red background, filled with pomegranate trees and flowering shrubs. Stylised cartouche panels alternating with arabesque and angular flowering vine, surround a teal colored central cartouche of two birds. Enclosed by intricate guard borders of flowering meander and a primary border of detailed alternating cartouches, all in variating colors of pomegranate, olive, gold, ivory, teal, pink, beige, camel, burgundy and mauve.
Circa 1870