Teheran carpet (Persia), end of the 19th century Dimensions : 315 x 201cm. Technical characteristics : Wool velvet on cotton foundation. Fine carpet, prayer form, with mihrab imagined by stems and branches with suspended birds on beige field with richly flowered trees of life, with suspended birds (representation of the "Earthly Paradise") and animal decoration. Five borders surround the carpet of which the main one is ivory with a semis of palmettes in the form of turquoise diamonds, rubies and old gold.

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