Peter Pap Oriental Rugs Inc. Furniture
About Peter Pap Oriental Rugs Inc.
Peter Pap has been dealing in distinctive rugs for over 40 years, and is recognized internationally by collectors and designers as one of the country’s foremost experts in antique rugs, carpets and tribal weavings.
With galleries in San Francisco and Dublin, New Hampshire, Peter participates in many of the country’s top antiques shows including the New York Winter Antiques Show, the Philadelphia Antiques Show and the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. He has an eye for timelessly beautiful rugs, which appeal both to collectors and decorators who are looking to place unique, elegant carpets in their clients’ interiors. A beautiful antique rug of integrity, made with natural dyes and artistry, is a work of art for generations.
Peter is a guest appraiser on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, and has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Elle Décor, GQ, The Wall Street Journal and House Beautiful. He also lectures extensively.
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Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
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...
Category
Antique 1880s Persian Persian Rugs
Malayer Sarouk Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
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...
Category
Antique 1860s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tabriz Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Tabriz carpet from the late 19th century. Measures 14'8" x 18'0".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tree Kazak Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Caucasian tree Kazak rug, 19th C (4th Q). Measures 5'9" x 7'7". Being sold on behalf of Dr. and Mrs. Timothy McCormack.
Category
Antique 1870s Caucasian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Heriz Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Heriz carpet from the early 20th century. Measures 11'10" x 14'2".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fereghan carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
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 liv...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Austrian Art Noveau Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Austrian Art Noveau rug from around 1900. Measures 10'2" x 10'6".
Category
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Erzurum Prayer Kilim
Located in San Francisco, CA
Erzurum prayer Kilim from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. Measures 3'10" x 6'0".
Category
Antique 1860s Turkish Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Chagli Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Caucasian Chagli rug from the 4th quarter of the 19th century. Measures 4'9" x 6'3".
Category
Antique 1880s Caucasian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bakhshaish Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
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 ...
Category
Antique 1870s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjov Kuba Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
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....
Category
Antique 1870s Caucasian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Runner
Located in San Francisco, CA
This colorful Bidjar runner uses a classic floral ‘mina khani’ design. The ‘mina khani’ pattern is usually characterized by large alternating floral buds interspersed with a row of smaller flanking jasmine...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Kurd Kolyai Runner
Located in San Francisco, CA
Northwest Persian Kurd Kolyai runner from the late 19th century. Measures 4'0" x 10'3".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Bidjar rug from around 1900, Being sold on behalf of Ms. Kaye Pritchard.
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique American Hooked Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hooked rugs are crafted by pulling loops of yarn or sometimes fabric through a stiff woven base usually made of burlap or linen. Rug hooking as a folk art ...
Category
Early 20th Century American North and South American Rugs
Materials
Yarn
Kirshehir Prayer Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
This colorful prayer rug from the area of Kirshehir in northern Anatolia paints a repeat image of a courtyard planted with cypress trees. A prayer niche—or mihrab—is outlined in blue...
Category
Antique 1880s Turkish Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fereghan Sarouk Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Fereghan Sarouk blends drama with elegance in a manner which is classically Persian. An elongated central medallion is stretched across almost the...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fereghan rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Fereghan rugs are renowned for their combination of crisp drawing with soft lustrous wool. The rare and wonderful design of this elegant piece com...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ziegler Mahal Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Woven in central Persia as fine export pieces specifically for the European market during the late nineteenth century, Ziegler carpets are some of the most graceful weavings of the period. This distinctive, antique oversize carpet elegantly adapts a directional format more typically associated with smaller Persian prayer rugs...
Category
Antique 1870s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Malayer carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This floral Bibikabad carpet from central Persia provides a creative take on a classic all-over design, the repeat “Herati” pattern. The central rosettes used in this design are typi...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fereghan carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This exceptionally elegant Fereghan carpet from central Persia masterfully balances drawing, scale, and color. The all-over “Herati” pattern is perfectly scaled to fully articulate e...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Finely drawn scrolls of vegetal ornamentation are traced against the saturated ruby-red ground of this fine Bidjar carpet. The delicacy of drawing is acc...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Kasim Ushag rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Caucasian Kasim Ushag rug from the late 19th century, measures 4'6" x 7'8".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Caucasian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serapi carpets from the Heriz district of Northwest Persia are known for their blending of bold graphics with a more traditional and elegant format. This Serapi draws a grand central...
Category
Antique 1870s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This grand Serapi carpet from the Heriz district of Northwest Persia draws an elegant central lobed medallion, formed from several palmette types, against an ochre red ground. Blosso...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Karabagh long rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Caucasian Karabagh from the late 19th century. Measures 7'7" x 15'2"
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Serapi carpet from the late 19th century. Measures 12' x 16' 1".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Serapi carpet from the late 19th century. Measures 11' x 13'
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Kilim
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Bidjar Kilim, late 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Sultanabad Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Great Sultanabad carpets blend bold design elements with compelling scale and a rich sophisticated palette. This piece does not disappoint. Three columns of large-scale ornament deri...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Heriz Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Heriz rug from Northwest Persia draws a small diamond-shaped medallion against an ornamented navy ground. Lush foliage and blossoms issue forth from horizontal beams at the top ...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Peking Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
During the decades preceding the World War II, several international firms wove rugs in China for the export market. These carpets were generally executed in the Art Deco style of th...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Runner
Located in San Francisco, CA
This elegant Bidjar runner balances the grandeur of a room size medallion carpet with the refinement of a more intimate piece. Runners present the weaver...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Sultanabad Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carpets from Sultanabad in Central Persia are renowned for maintaining an exceptional degree of elegance while using a larger scale of design and thick lustrous wool. It was this aes...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mohtashem Kashan Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Kashan, an oasis town in south central Persia, has been a center for dying and fine silk textile production for centuries. As early as the 16th century, small format silk carpets wer...
Category
Antique 1860s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Malayer Sarouk Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
This exceptionally pleasing Persian rug melds elegance with happiness using the classic arrangement of a central medallion within a cartouche-shaped field. Against a rose ground a ne...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi 'Heriz' Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Although it is centered around a small rosette drawn within a deep indigo octagon, this long Serapi Heriz carpet nevertheless conveys the freedom ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Oushak Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oushak carpets are favored for their soft wool and pale coloration. Balancing a sky blue field with a border and central medallion woven in complementary contrasting shades of ocher ...
Category
Antique 1880s Turkish Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Lavar Kirman Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Lavar Kirman, late 19th century, measures: 4'6" x 6'0".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serab Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Serab, late 19th century, measures: 4' 4" x 7' 10".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Lavar Kirman Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Lavar Kirman, 19th C (4th Q), measures: 4' 8" x 7' 2".
Category
Antique 1880s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Great Bidjar carpets are known for their delicate drawing and hardy construction. This elegant example draws a fine all-over design of foliage and blosso...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tabriz Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Tabriz, 19th C (4th Q), measures: 10'2" x 13'5".
Category
Antique 1880s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Sultanabad Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Sultanabad, late 19th century, measures: 12' 8" x 15' 9".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Kirman Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Kirman, circa 1900, measures: 9' x 12'.
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fereghan Sarouk Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Fereghan Sarouk, circa 1900, measures: 7' 5" x 9' 3".
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Serapi, late 19th century, measures: 8' 9" x 11' 5".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bidjar Runner
Located in San Francisco, CA
This exceedingly pleasing Bidjar runner approaches the long and narrow format in a playful and novel manner. During the late 19th century the Kurdish town of Bijar and its surrounding area became a major Persian carpet producing center, weaving a variety of rugs and carpets both small and large. Central medallions were a popular design format used in these carpets. While a variety of all-over designs appear in Bidjar pieces, here a design based on a repeating prominent central medallion is skillfully improvised. Runners were traditionally paired with large carpets so it is likely that this piece was woven as part of a set, of which the central piece was a large medallion carpet. Indeed, khaki panels drawing colorful linked palmettes of the type used in the borders of large Bidjar...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Joshegan Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Joshegan, late 19th century, measures: 12'8" x 17'8".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bakhtiari Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Bakhtiari carpet draws a large niche within red spandrels. Directional Persian carpets of this large a size are quite rare but the grand scale of...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mohajeran Sarouk Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Mohajeran Sarouk, late 19th century, measures: 9'0" x 12'0".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This fantastic over-sized Serapi carpet paints a ruby-red lobed medallion against an indigo ground. A network of flowers and full palmettes blossom from meandering scrolls throughout...
Category
Antique 1880s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Serapi Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serapi carpets from Northwest Persia are renowned for their balance of bold and playful drawing. This exceptional piece uses the traditional layout of a medallion set within a field with corner spandrels but layers the entire composition with an all-over design, the so-called “mina khani” pattern, more often seen in neighboring Kurdish weavings...
Category
Antique 1880s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mahal Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Mahal, early 20th century, measures: 10'5" x 16'8".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bakhtiari Carpet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bakhtiari weaving has an interesting and complex history. The Bakhtiari are nomadic pastoralists living in western Iran. Twice a year they would move ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Karaja Serapi Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persian Karaja Serapi rug. Measures: 5'0" x 6'6".
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Persian Persian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Gendje Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
Caucasian Gendje rug. Measures: 3'8" x 7'4".
Category
Antique 1860s Caucasian Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
