An antique Persian Tabriz carpet. Reindeer (!) bound and tigers pounce in a buff ground jungle of giant ragged palmettes and serpentine cloud bands. The blue-grey border connects oval palmettes with midnight blue “fungus” strapwork in the 16th-century Persian style. This is not a pictorial carpet, but one employing a few pictorial elements.

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