Antique Afshar Rug, 120 Cm X 155 Cm, Hand-knotted Wool, Iran, Early 20th Century

A fine example of an Afshar with double medallions, placed on a bed of salmon-colored botehs, a color found on certain old carpets: Sarough, Tafresh, Hamadan, and Afshar.
Afshar rug, (Avshar) hand-knotted in very good quality wool, from the beginning of the 20th century or even the very end of the 19th century.
It measures 120 cm wide by 155 cm long, in beautiful native complex shades
The treatment of the colors has been done based on plants and minerals, proof is that the black parts have no oxidation.
The ornamentation of this piece of great finesse is composed of two geometric medallions.
The salmon field covered with small botehs posed in inverted lines and surrounded by a border of hexagon representing stylized flowers, all bordered by two braids of very fine execution composed of two multicolored dots.
At the bottom of the field a beautiful change of red wool passing to salmon, probably that the knotter changed his mind during the composition of the carpet by finding the salmon more lively and bringing out the decoration of botehs better.
the rug is in good condition considering its age and has central pile wear which does not detract from the beauty of this beautiful antique rug.
The colors are bright and give it a magnificent cachet.
A very nice copy in its own juice which will please the connoisseur with its usual wear, the ends are with very short fringes as on almost all old carpets. In the southeast of Iran, around the city of Kerman, live the semi-nomads of the Afshar tribe.
For a long time, these nomads lived in the north-west of Iran, but part of the population moved towards the south-east where the manufacture of the carpets represented an important economic sector, and this since the middle of the XIXth century.
These carpets have shades of pink, red, ocher, many blues, purple, and the majority of them bear geometric patterns.
The most common design used is a large central field with one or more square medallions.
Some decorations represent the skin of an animal stretched before being tanned.
What is typical of Afshar mats is that they are relatively wide compared to their length.
Afshar rugs are also marketed under the name Sirdjan rugs.
A collector's item above all, this superb rug is a work of art close to modern or even contemporary art that can be put on the wall.
This rug has been professionally and environmentally cleaned.
Traces of light wear, which give this type of ethnic rug its authentic character.
A beautiful piece due to its construction and the quality of the wool and the design.
Dimensions: Width: 120 cm (47") x 155 cm (61")
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