ANTIQUE ZIEGLER SULTANABAD CARPET
Origin: PERSIA
Size: 10' 4" x 16' 3"
Rug ID # 266
Finely woven on an ivory 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 vine. Enclosed by multiple guard borders and a primary rust border with enlarged palmettes and angular meandering lattice, all in variating shades of ivory, rust, sky blue, tan, beige, shrimp, gold, tobacco and camel.
Circa 1870
