Bijar
ca. 1900, 221 x 141 cm, North West Persia, Kurdistan
A red-ground Bijar, finely woven on a cotton warp. Drawn in a flamboyant style, the field design of light green arabesques, sickle leaves and palmettes in a mirror-image composition around the vertical central axis derives from classical Persian models.
Condition
Pile in good condition. Selvedges restored in places.
ca. 1900, 221 x 141 cm, North West Persia, Kurdistan
A red-ground Bijar, finely woven on a cotton warp. Drawn in a flamboyant style, the field design of light green arabesques, sickle leaves and palmettes in a mirror-image composition around the vertical central axis derives from classical Persian models.
Condition
Pile in good condition. Selvedges restored in places.
