Antique Khorassan Persian Rugs 3244

Antique Khorassan Persian Rug, late nineteenth centuryAlthough the floral detail of this lush antique Khorassan is an immediately ornamental composition based on symmetrical repetition, it nonetheless functions as a sprawling pictorial image of a natural environment - a paradise scene replete with various birds, lions, and foxes. These are all rendered in golden tones and red against a dramatic blue black ground. The main border is small in scale - a simple, a reciprocal trefoil design that gives pride of place to the field.