A MAGNIFICENT SAFAVID 'POLONAISE' SILK AND METAL THREAD CARPET, the pale golden brown field with two columns of scrolling entwined ivory and ruby-red arabesques issuing delicate scrolling palmette and flowering tendrils and enclosing shaped panels of metal-thread issuing from a small central cusped concentric metal-thread and lemon-yellow medallion, in a shaded green palmette, feathery leaf and arabesque border linked by indigo tendrils between ruby-red and golden-brown meandering leafy vine stripes, first half seventeenth century (overall even wear, corroded black, minute damages) 13ft.6in. x 5ft.9in. (410cm. x 176cm.)
A MAGNIFICENT SAFAVID 'POLONAISE' SILK AND METAL THREAD CARPET, the pale golden brown field with two columns of scrolling entwined ivory and ruby-red arabesques issuing delicate scrolling palmette and flowering tendrils and enclosing shaped panels of metal-thread issuing from a small central cusped concentric metal-thread and lemon-yellow medallion, in a shaded green palmette, feathery leaf and arabesque border linked by indigo tendrils between ruby-red and golden-brown meandering leafy vine stripes, first half seventeenth century (overall even wear, corroded black, minute damages) 13ft.6in. x 5ft.9in. (410cm. x 176cm.)
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