Peter Pap Oriental Rugs Inc.

This classic star-burst medallion Serapi has the grace and refinement of the very best nineteenth-century Northwest Persian carpets. The central medallion format, if not first formul...

This magnificent central Persian carpet on a rich madder red ground was woven during the heyday of a Renaissance in Persian weaving almost one hundred and fifty years ago. The medallion format has a long tradition going back at least to the fifteenth century. This piece, however, interprets the Classic design in the vocabulary of the later nineteenth. The masterfully drawn palmette border on a dark indigo ground exemplifies the neoclassical tastes of the epoch that permeated, not only Europe, but the Near East as well. Ivory corner pieces flank the central medallion with both containing an elegantly drawn jewel-like crystalline lattice. The relationship of these corner pieces to the medallion is striking as well, as the former not only flank the later but in many areas contain it as if to mimic the effects of a secondary border. Excellence of proportion is valued over strict symmetry, and in the drawing of the medallion with its two radiating pendentives a delicate balance is achieved by deliberately pairing the elongated bottom half of the medallion with the smaller of the two pendentives and vice versa. Irrespective of what criteria are considered: quality of material, drawing or color; this piece is a masterpiece of 19th-century Persian weaving. Hartford, Connecticut convent c. 1900 to 2000 Purchased by Peter...

Persian Tabriz carpet from the late 19th century. Measures 14'8" x 18'0".

Caucasian tree Kazak rug, 19th C (4th Q). Measures 5'9" x 7'7". Being sold on behalf of Dr. and Mrs. Timothy McCormack.

Persian Heriz carpet from the early 20th century. Measures 11'10" x 14'2".

In the manner of a fine Persian shawl, this splendid Fereghan carpet draws rows of elegant paisley clusters throughout its field. Color is superb and ...

Austrian Art Noveau rug from around 1900. Measures 10'2" x 10'6".

Persian Heriz rug from the early 20th century. Measures 7'7" x 10'11".

Erzurum prayer Kilim from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. Measures 3'10" x 6'0".

Caucasian Chagli rug from the 4th quarter of the 19th century. Measures 4'9" x 6'3".

This majestic Northwest Persian Bakhshaish carpet combines the monumentality of the best Persian room-size carpets with the grace of a fine textile. The cream ground is innovatively ...

The deep brown oxidized field of this Bidjov Kuba rug from the southeast Caucasus provides the perfect canvas for the various colorful abstract vegetal elements radiating against it....