An unusual antique Azerbaijan runner, circa 1920 in perfect condition and a rare color background with high quality lustrous vegetable dyed wool.
This runner made in northwest Persia.
This exceptionally elegant antique Persian Kermanshah carpet embodies the refined decorative aesthetic that made the finest Western Persian weavings so desirable among aristocratic and European-influenced interiors during the late 19th century. The rug displays an unusually sophisticated allover floral design rendered with extraordinary delicacy and balance across an elongated gallery format.
The field is woven in softly muted ivory, sand, pale gold, faded rose, soft celadon, and gentle powder-blue tones, creating a luminous and highly decorative surface with remarkable subtlety.
Art Deco in Peking quality, rare.
This wonderful Art Deco carpet was made in China, circa 1910s or 1920s. It has purchased from a nice home in New York. Walter Nichols was great American rug producer (the Art Deco rugs which he did not originate them) in Tientsin. The rugs made of wool and silk with bold vibrant colors and the pattern are pictorial scenes and trees, birds, clouds, mountains, dragons, butterfly and flowers. The production of Art Deco rugs started from 1910s-1950s and mostly with western influence.
Karajah, Heriz, Serapi, Bakshaish. Karaja and Serapi or Bakshaish all are villages in the district of Heriz north west Persia. Since mid-19th century rugs from these area imported to US and European market. This Karaja rug like many other antique rugs antique rugs that used in US has beautiful appeal of colors, they are soft and mute and great attraction to the viewers
From Sultanabad region of Persia, circa 1920.
Lilihan is one of a group of Armenian villages which makes the rugs known as Lilihan. Measures: 2'9" x 7'1".
Antique Kilim long carpet, Kuba, late 19th century. An impressive staggered design of serrated palmette set against a blue field on this magnificent antique Kuba Kilim or great classical carpets of the Caucasus. The smaller palmettes and rosettes that make up the border also reflect the Kazak and Karabagh rugs of the Caucasus. Kilims with such design and rich color are exceptional in Persian weaving, as is the unusually long and large format of this amazing piece.
These rugs are very heavy in relation to their size and sturdy and sometimes impossible to fold them because of their knotting technique. The material is wool knotted on wool foundation and the wool dyed with vegetable colors.
This rug made in northwestern Persia in the Kurdish village and the pattern is herati also called the mahi flower consists of a rosette enclosed in a diamond with curved leaves and small flowers. This runner has allover Herati Pattern and the Herati symbol is auspicious, and is often thought to bring good luck.
