ANTIQUE ZIEGLER SULTANABAD CARPET
Origin: PERSIA
Size: 13' 3" x 22' 0"
Rug ID # 200
Finely woven on a sky blue background with an all over pattern stylised after classical Persian "Vase" carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries with enlarged "Shah Abbas" palmettes and polychrome vases issuing angular flowering and leafy vine. Enclosed by multiple guard borders and a primary cognac border with enlarged palmettes and angular flowering lattice, all in variating shades of sky blue, cognac, ivory, tan, beige, shrimp, cinnamon, gold, rose and camel.
Circa 1880