| Description | Geometric antique Bakshaish carpet dating from 1890 in outstanding condition, with a super soft wool pile all over. Woven in the North-West of Persia around 1880-1890. More often Bakshaish carpets were woven in larger sizes and often with bold geometric designs, and vivid colours. Their designs can be quite abstract and nearly always comprised of a central motif which sprawls out in one large design to the corner spandrels or with a smaller medallion inside a larger medallion. This exquisite earlier piece however uses a more subtle geometric all over design with large stylised leaves and flowers on a deep blue main field. Generally older pieces were more open than younger examples woven from this Heriz region in the North of Persia. |