Vintage Persian Overdyed Rug

230 x 156cm, 7'6" x 5'1"
£1,520.00
  • SKU: 19800

    Fresh green touches give this rug a distinctive note within its muted palette. Small leafy sprigs spread across a peach-beige field, surrounding a pale, elongated central cartouche. Its dark scalloped outline expands and contracts around delicate flowers, with little rounded ornaments marking either end. Along the sides, pale panels and dark curling lines form a second, more architectural frame. Stylised plant forms are fundamental to the Persian carpet repertoire. Weavers repeatedly adapted flowers, leaves and scrolling branches to suit symmetrical fields and enclosing borders.

    Those arrangements connect carpet design with a wider Persian taste for ordered botanical ornament in other arts. This rug offers a particularly open floral composition, presented through the softened colour relationships of an overdyed vintage piece. The drawing is airy rather than densely packed. Individual stems can be followed through the open ground, and small pink accents sit lightly among the green leaves.

    The combination of peach, ivory and green has a gentle decorative brightness, while the darker outlines prevent the shapes from dissolving into the pale surface. At 230 × 156 cm, this rug would make a considered addition to a bedroom or a small sitting room. Painted furniture in a restrained green could pick up the leaves, while honeyed timber would complement the peach ground. It is worth leaving the central cartouche partly uncovered, as its unusual outline contributes as much to the design as the scattered sprigs around it.

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