Lot 885

KASHAN 'MOHTASHAM' CARPET
CENTRAL PERSIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Auction: 25 June 2014 at 12:00 BST
£7,500
Description
the indigo field with red and indigo medallion suspending pendants, red, indigo and ivory spandrels, within indigo palmette and ribbon vine border between bands
Dimensions
422cm x 278cm
Footnote
Provenance:
Collected by William Semple, an engineer with The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in Iran circa 1910.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
