Antique Persian Tabriz Large Room Size Carpet

A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. A version of the 17th century Kerman Vase Carpet pattern unfolds across the deep red field of this city carpet. The vinery supports upright palmettes, tilted petal palmettes, relaxed palmettes, amphora-form irises, and square palmettes, while a secondary layer of finer arabesque vines yields smaller palmettes and blossoms. Square and ragged palmettes decorate the ecru border.