Persian Sultanabad Circa 1880 - 68893

Discover the elegance of Persian Sultanabad featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1880. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Discover the elegance of Persian Sultanabad featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1880. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Discover the elegance of Persian Sultanabad featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1880. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Discover the elegance of Persian Sultanabad featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1880. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

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...

This rug is a Sultanabad originating from the city Sultanabad which is now Arak. These rugs played a significant role in the development of traditions and decorative arts in this reg...

This Persian Sultanabad carpet circa 1880 consists of handspun wool and natural vegetal dyes. Created in the Sultanabad workshop of the Swiss artist Zigler, it is an extremely fine p...

Antique Persian rust Ziegler Sultanabad rug, circa 1880 8'5x11'10. The Ziegler Company from Manchester was one of the earliest dealers and manufacturers of carpets operating in Persia and commissioning these carpets. They were active in Persia between 1870-1920 establishing offices and a dyeing workshop. Zeigler's were the first Persian (Eastern) rugs to be redesigned according to western tastes. The decorative rug contains graphics of lions and deer...