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End TABRIZ (North-West Iran) Late XIXth beginning...

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End TABRIZ (North-West Iran) Late XIXth beginning XXth, woven in the famous workshop of the master weaver HADJI-DJALILI (Persia), end of the XIXth century. Two sacred bovids frame a vase from which a multitude of flowering foliage springs or frolic with many birds. This scene appears in a midnight blue "mihrab", topped by an ivory vault with flowers. Against a brick border with multicoloured flowers and a main border where felines face each other in a garland of multicoloured flowers. - Prayer-shaped carpet - Beautiful polychromy - Remarkable freshness of colours - Carpet with earthly paradise decoration - Technical data - Silky lambskin kork wool velvet on cotton foundation - Density: approx. 7500/8000 knots per dm2 184 x 105 cm