Fine Vintage Persian Gabbeh Rug 6'8'' x 9'9''

Gabbeh Rug 6'8'' x 9'9''. Wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geometries and unshaded c...

Gabbeh Rug 6'8'' x 9'9''. This tribal piece shows a delightfully abrashed denim blue open field centred by a red, three panel pole medallion of red hexagons with yellow hooked fringe...

Vintage Gabbeh rug 6'9'' x 9'9''.

This post-WWII central Persian scatter has a neo-Caucasian design on an ecru field of right-angle “goosenecks” and small birds (probably peacocks or roosters), set within an ivory gr...

A vintage Persian Gabbeh rug from the mid-20th century.

A vintage Persian Gabbeh rug woven by the nomadic Qashqai tribe. This is definitely a conversational piece and one created for an artsy individual that can enjoy the quirkiness of vintage tribal rugs. Aside from the offset medallion and highly striated field ranging from brick to crimson red, the text reading "year 2536 (intended, most likely, for the year the rug was made)" is peculiar regardless if its source is from the Persian calendar (current year: 1397) or the Gregorian calendar (current year: 2018). Was the weaver an innumerate individual that lacked basic education and just slapped on some nonsensical numbers of a futuristic date onto the rug? Or, was this an extremely intelligent individual that possessed a skill that very few have? The ability to convert the old imperial Persian (Achaemenid) calendar created in 559 BC under Cyrus the Great...

A vintage Persian Gabbeh rug from the mid-20th century.

A vintage Persian Gabbeh carpet from the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a lion.