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Persian · Late 19th Century
The Kashan Botanical
Flowers, bushes and boteh — the paisley of the West — scattered across a burgundy ground in the nineteenth-century botanical manner. Touches of turquoise against navy give the piece its particular liveliness.
19th century flower and bushes. Paisley designed
All-over lattice of boteh and flowering shrubs with small birds on a burgundy ground; turquoise highlights against a navy border.
- Size
- 6′8″ × 4′5″
- Style
- Persian — Kashan
- Era
- Late 19th Century
- Pile
- Wool on Cotton
- Foundation
- Cotton
- Weave
- Hand-knotted
- Dyes
- Vegetable dye
- Condition
- Excellent
Some photographs are styled visualisations; the piece itself is photographed unretouched.