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A TABRIZ TRICLINIUM CARPET
NORTH WEST PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Finely woven, mostly in good pile, areas of light wear, minor repairs
18ft.8in. x 13ft.9in. (570cm. x 420cm.) by two kenareh (runners) and on one of its short sides by a kalleghi (known
in the West as a kelleh; see Jennifer Scarce, ‘The Role of Carpets within the
£16,000-22,000 US$23,000-31,000
19th Century Persian Household’ , HALI 24, 1984, pp.394-400, fig .11). The
€19,000-25,000
present carpet includes a series of smaller prayer rugs within its design
'Triclinium', or 'Audience', carpets summarise the three main formats of the making it both a large decorative carpet of elegant stature and a functional
Persian living room, the mian farsh (the main carpet) flanked on its long sides saf that could be used for family prayer.
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