Persian rugs

This circa 1880 Senna Saddle is very finely woven. It measures 3’6” X 3’5”. The saddle cover is laid out in a prayer design. The color appears green however the background is actually done in a pale blue with a yellow boteh design which comes together to make the rug appear green. The spandrels at the top of the prayer

This circa 1860 Hadjalili Tabriz measures 4’3” X 5’9”. It has a diamond shaped center motif in ivory containing a pulled diamond shaped motif in a darker ivory with geometric contents. The corners are done in the same unknowable but always lovely motif as the center medallion. The weaver of this rug liked this motif so much that he tried

  This circa 1880 Khorasson measures 4’8” X 6’5”.  It has a very pale red going to peach in the border and the field has an ivory background which you would never know as there is so much design going on in it. The field motif has a boteh in dark brown facing left on an ivory field that is

This last quarter 19th century Laver Kerman measures 4’3” X 6’7”. It has a prayer motif on a café au lait ground containing a tree of life with birds sitting in a row of branches extending half way down the rug and coming to rest in the center of a large floral decoration containing two large birds at its base

This circa 1880 Camel Hair Hamadan (Serab) Runner measures 3’5” X 12’10”. This design is the Persian garden design or rose design which is almost always found in Bakhtiari rugs but this time has found its way onto a Hamadan. The design is very nicely drawn with repeated roses in many shades of red on a blue ground all encompassed