Antique Persian Lavar Kerman Pictorial Rug

A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. On a rust-brown ground, a nude Adam reclines beneath a flowering bush, while Eve, also nude, sits nearby, tempted by the apple offered by the Serpent coiled in the Tree at the left. Adam rests beside a stream in a pose recalling that of an ancient pagan river god. A near-black main border with an undulating meander frames the scene.