Bakhtiari carpet (167)

Bakhtiari carpet from south west Persia (Iran)

Age: circa 1880

Size: 10″.10″x 6′ .10″ (330×208 cm)

The navy field presents an elaborated and enlarged Mina Khani design of ragged palmettes,ragged rosettes,octagram rosettes,birds,ewers and curved leaves.At the center of the field is a notched ivory medallion centered by a rosette and there are secondary supporting rosettes.The red main border employs rosettes,palmettes and birds.In addition in one corner is a large stylized human figure with a waterpipe.There are four secondary borders in red,navy and ivory displaying rosettes,triangle reciprocals,connected rosettes and connected leaves.At each end is a red flatwoven finish.The wool is of high quality,the weave is fine and the condition is good.