ANTIQUE AGRA

ANTIQUE AGRA CARPET
Origin: INDIA
Size: 15' 0" x 17' 6"
Rug ID # 531

Finely woven on a teal background with an all over pattern stylised after classical Persian "Vase" carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries with enlarged "Shah Abbas" palmettes and polychrome vases issuing angular flowering and leafy vine.  Enclosed by multiple guard borders and a primary cranberry border with enlarged palmettes and angular flowering blossoms, all in colors of teal, cranberry red, ivory, tan, beige, rose  and camel.

Circa 1870