A GOOD KASHAN CARPET

A GOOD KASHAN CARPET

CENTRAL PERSIA, C.1940

the abrashed raspberry field with an all over design of scrolling vines, palmettes and flowers, enclosed by indigo borders of meandering vines, flanked by ice blue and celadon green guard stripes, indistinctly signed

516 x 366 cm

Provenance

Purchased from The Rug Company, Lots Road, London, 29th March 1999, for £25,000

The selected contents of Dinton Hall, Buckinghamshire.

Both ends complete. Selvedges - one in good condition, the other with wear and losses to the binding cords and wear into the outer plain red guard stripe. Pile is close clipped and in fair condition but very slightly low in a few areas.