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Original and fine MELAYER (Persia) Beginning...

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Original and fine MELAYER (Persia) Beginning of the 20th century Three ivory diamond-shaped medallions covered with a thousand flowers enclose in their breasts and in the centre a fourth marine diamond with "botehs". They lie on a navy blue field with interlacing flowers. A sky-blue border of flowers surrounds the whole. Technical characteristics : - Lambswool velvet on a cotton foundation. - Beautiful polychromy - Density: about 8000/8500 knots per dm2 Good general condition 195 x 140cm Bibliography : - Oriental rugs by Fabio FORMENTON (GM) pages 144, 145