Red Turkish Kars Carpet, circa 1940s

This urban NW Persian carpet features a sandy beige field with a close pattern of palmettes, flower quatrefoils and sinuous leafy vines, accented in powder blue, ivory and red-brown,...

This interwar NW Persian well-woven carpet still has presence in the significantly abrashed field going from brick to light brown with a strong arabesque and flowering palmette allov...

This generally distressed, flat NW Persian city carpet shows an open peachy-brown field with an acanthus- scalloped and pendanted medallion within a beige to brown main border of aca...

The dark brown lozenge lattice divides the field into a uniform harlequin tessellation of abrashed brown and beige pieces. Hairline dark brown border. Abrash is virtually continuous ...

In the Saraband style, this west Persian urban carpet has a brown field with numerous half drop rows of tiny angular bottehs, and a border system with a central old ivory band with a...

The light beige field of this carpet supports an allover pattern of linked rosettes in a lozenge pattern with stylized leaves and botehs. The brown border shows a stiff, split vine w...

The spot worn, abrashed plain red field of this eastern Turkish piece features a pole medallion of three bold light grey and royal blue diamonds, al...

Here influenced by contemporaneous Kerman work, the straw-cream open field floats a stretched and pendanted medallion, within conjoint floral corners creating an oval effect. Pale bl...

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Woven in a village near the Caucasus and showing its influence, the definitely abrashed field displays three slightly octogrammoidal motives supported by heavily hooked diamonds and ...

- Good original condition with minor signs of use

This Persian Qashqai carpet circa 1940 was created using a wool warp, wool weft, hand-knotted pure wool pile and natural vegetable dyes. The central lion design is rather striking in the way it contrasts the carpet's red field, as well as in its detailed facial features. In Persian folklore, the lion symbolizes kingship, prestige, and the protection of sacred spaces. Its power is beautifully conveyed by the weaver of this piece, who created this carpet for ceremonious purpose. Taking a closer look at the border, one can see Qashqai villagers dancing in celebratory robes, indicating that this was likely woven as a wedding carpet...