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Fine Antique Persian Sultanabad Handmade Wool Rug BB7251 11'8" × 15'3" $65,000

$65,000

Among the finest of the antique rugs in our collection, the present example ahs a dark blue field beneath a curvilinear beige trellis of leafy vinery and stylized palmettes within a beige border with finely executed palmette vinery.

History of Sultanabad rugs

The appeal of Sultanabads to Western eyes is not the result of random chance. In 1883, Ziegler and Co. of Manchester, England, an Anglo-Swiss manufacturer, importer, and distributor of Persian carpets, established a Persian carpet workshop in Sultanabad, Persia, an area now known as Arak. Intending to export to Europe and the United States of America, Ziegler and Co. employed designers from major Western department stores, such as B. Altman and Co. of New York and Liberty of London, to adapt traditional sixteenth and seventeenth century Safavid designs by making the designs larger in keeping with the style of the early Arts and Crafts movement and made the Persian carpet themselves larger to fit Western-sized rooms. For the more restrained Western taste, traditional designs were recolored to be more subtle and obliging. Traditional local dying techniques were improved and brought up to the standards of the latest methods of the time, creating new possibilities of color and tonality.

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Price: $65,000

Item No.: BB7251 Circa: 1900 Size: 11'8" × 15'3" (355 × 464 cm)
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This is Fine Antique Persian Sultanabad Handmade Wool Rug number BB7251 in our internal collections. This rug was manufactured around 1900 in Persia, which means it is already 124 years old.

The dimensions of this rug are: 11'8" × 15'3" width × length, which corresponds to 355 × 464 cm in the metric system.

The rug was qualified by our experts as a Botanic, Casual style in our wide offer of rugs. If you are interested in this unique work of art, please contact us with the number BB7251 for further information.

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Fine Antique Persian Sultanabad Handmade Wool Rug BB7251

Fine Antique Persian Sultanabad Handmade Wool Rug BB7251

$65,000

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