2017FEB

A Mashed carpet, Persian, the dark madder field with an allover design of scrolling palmette floral sprays, a complementary pale pink palmette border,

A Ghasghai carpet, South Persian, the madder field with one large and two small hooked medallions, dark grey spandrels, all with minor flowerheads, pl

After Pablo Picasso; Le Peintre et son Modele, 1928, wool rug with signature lower left and numbered 455/500 on a label on reverse. Published by Desso

An Esfahan part silk rug, Persian, the ivory field with a pale indigo and pale brown medallion, an inner and outer floral wreath, a complementary bord

A Sarough runner, Persian, the ivory herate field with three madder cartouches, a madder palmette and vine border, 312cm x 75cm.

A Shiraz rug, South Persian, the madder field with an indigo hooked medallion surrounded by diagonal bands of mini flowerheads, star spandrels and sha

An Esfahan carpet, Persian, the ivory field with an allover palmette and floral vine design, a madder cartouche and floral spray border, 370cm x 260cm

A Chinese rug, the plain natural field with a roundel of indigo flowers and butterflies, leaf spray spandrels, minor sprays, and a complementary borde

A Fereghan rug of Caucasian design, Persian, the indigo field filled with botehs, madder boteh spandrels, an ivory waved band border, 202cm x 104cm.

An Heriz carpet, Persian, the madder field with a bold indigo rosette medallion, ivory spandrels, floral sprays, an indigo rosette, palmette and vine

A needlework embroidery by Polly Taylor dated 1778, depicting camels and Persian figures against a landscape, with moral verse above, in a wide foliat