A SILK HERIZ PRAYER RUG

Lot 204
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 204 | A SILK HERIZ PRAYER RUG
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
A SILK HERIZ PRAYER RUG

NORTH WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1870

Finely woven on polychrome wefts, overall excellent condition

6ft.2in. x 4ft.6in. (187cm. x 138cm.)





Provenance

George Farrow, personal catalogue, 1993



Inscribed

The inscription cartouche contains a variant on a couplet by Sa'di, which reads an sarv kih guyand ba-bala-yi tu manad, hargiz ba-chunin qamat u raftar nabashad - 'That cypress which they say is of your height, can never be of such stature and behaviour'



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