Northwestern IRAN, circa 1975 Large and fine TABRIZ High-quality silky lambswool velvet on cotton foundation. Density approx. 7000 knots per dm2. Good overall condition. Old gold field decorated with scrolls of scrolls of fine twisted crenellated stems of polychrome flowering palmettes surrounded by finely drawn foliage framing a large central rosette with a crown of old rose, midnight blue and bronze starry flowers. Four spandrels decorated with friezes of almond-green stylized crowns surrounding a floral bulb. Six borders, the main tobacco one decorated with a thousand flowers in the form of stylized diamonds. 270 x 190 cm

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