Antique Oversize Indo Kirman Rug, 14'7 x 23'9

Antique oversize Persian terracotta Sultanabad rug, circa 1880. Size 17'6 x 23'9. This is a village carpet? Well, a rather large one, not your usual scatter 4 x 6 or room size 9 x 12. Sultanabad carpets were woven in the Arak/Markazi province, around the town of Sultanabad, from the mid-1880’s until WWI, under the aegis and contracts of Western carpet firms, primarily Ziegler and Hotz. Neither firm marked their carpets, but it has been the modern trade practice to attribute quality Sultanabad's to Ziegler. Ziegler had a centralized dye works, design studio, wool processing operation and washing facility, but no workshops, the actual weaving being farmed out to local household ateliers. The patterns were distributed via sampler mats (wagirehs), the knot density and color palettes were assigned, and sufficient wool and foundational cotton were also given out. This splendid carpet must have been woven from a set of extremely well-drawn samplers. The desirable rust-red madder field shows a classically derived allover pattern of knotted cloud bands, large and complex ragged palmettes, smaller palmettes, slender vinery, leaves and diminutive florets. The accent tones include cream, pale green, straw, and light brown. The taupe main border shows a repeating pattern of double barbed leaves, octogramme rosettes, trefoil palmettes, tilted petal palmettes and supporting vinery. A rust-red plain border frames the whole. The use of plain, field tone borders on larger Persian carpets...

Vintage Persian Kirman rug, circa 1920. Size: 13'8 x 19'5. This Kirman comes from the period when designs were in transition from traditional Persian patterns to those influenced by western tastes. The beige field is covered by curving leave boteh fantastic flowers blooming flowers and all manner of botanic ornaments...

Antique Kirman rug, circa 1880, 13' x 20'. Kirmans of the late 19th century are thin fine rugs with most often overall repeat pattern. Here a subtly colored diagonal lozenge lattice ...

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Oversize vintage Persian Kirman rug. The ivory field with a lovely central medallion in blues, with goldy-browns all surrounded by a wonderfully detailed border with identical colors...

Oversized Antique Persian Kirman carpet. Size: 14'0" × 22'6" (426 × 685 cm). A fine example from our selection of late 19th century antique Persian Kirman (Kerman) carpets, the sand ...

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Beautiful antique Kirman hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Persian rug has red and tan accents in a gorgeous all-over floral pattern design. This rug measures: 10'8" x 1...