Oversize Antique Persian Sultanabad Handmade Wool Rug (Size Adjusted) BB8620 16'2" × 17'4" $48,000

An early 20th century Sultanabad Persian carpet, the brick red field with a dense allover lattice of floral vinery, within a cocoa palmette and flowering vinery border.

Antique Sultanabad rugs are among the most desirable Persian antique rugs to be produced in the late 19th and early 20th century. Characterized by their subtle color palettes and trellis designs, antique Sultanabads are frequently the choice of designers in search of allover extra large area rugs for living room to serve as a more subtle compliment to a design scheme.

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.