Baktiar Persian circa 1895 antique. Size: 205 x 136 (cm) 6' 9" x 4' 6" carpet id: K-4397
Vegetable dyes, the black color is oxidized, the knots are hand spun lamb wool, acceptable condition, minor moth damages at the border side, the surrounded large border is ivory, the background color is indigo, designed with different type of stylized paradise trees, rare subject, fine knotted, in its original shape.
a similar example was published in the catalog of "Orientteppiche" by Erich Aschenbrenner on page 104, ill. 43.
Private collection.