Number 1869
Type Workshop
Style All Over
Origin Tehran
Material Silk & Gold Thread
Size 52 x 45
Age 1880
Quite a puzzler. A very rare and exclusive antique Tehran in the collectible 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘪 square format. Woven in the 3D Soof Barjasteh technique with a carved out metal thread field with metallic wefts, and an embossed pile-knotted field. Very intricate, very challenging to weave, very hard to achieve.
This is also one of a handful of rugs in the world that are signed "Tehran", thereby ascertaining this much sought after provenance and origin. What is really intriguing is who or what MM is. The full signature is TEHRAN - MM.
Perfect condition with full pile and lush, long original fringes.
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