372761
Mashad Carpet
Persia
400 x 318 cm
13' 1" x 10' 5"
Old
£4950.00
Capital city of the North East Persian province of Khorassan, Mashad (Meshad) has long been renowned for its richly coloured, highly sophisticated workshop carpets, some of which - notably those by the two great master-weavers Emoghli and Saber - are among the finest and most valuable Persian carpets to have been created during the last hundred years. This superb example in the graceful medallion and flower arrangement for which Mashad is famous reveals the wonderful curvilinear fluency of draughtsmanship, deep, closely-harmonized and totally
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