Rococo Rug Club

A superb shirvan pictorial rug with a prince on horseback hunting with his bird of prey. Available for purchase from the mind boggling collection of

Acrobats Rehearsing Their Act at Great Golden Circus, Ahmedabad
Mary Ellen Mark - 1989 .

  

Lee Radziwill photographed in 1966 by Cecil Beaton with her daughter, Tina, could find no designer able to bring intimacy to what she called the “bowling alley” proportions of her London living room until she discovered Renzo Mongiardino. He took two different inexpensive Indian fabrics, cut them into panels and alternated them in gilded rod frames, thus starting a trend for “Indian rooms.” Photo courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

  

Figurative Qashqai rug from HEYBATLOU clan with a daring colour combination
Depicting two figures in indigenous garb
Dimension 176 * 122 cm

"The Qashqai are renowned for their pile carpets and other woven wool products. They are sometimes referred to as "Shiraz" because Shiraz was the major marketplace for them in the past. The wool produced in the mountains and valleys near Shiraz is exceptionally soft and beautiful and takes a deeper color than wool from other parts of Iran.

"No wool in all Persia takes such a rich and deep colour as the Shiraz wool. The deep blue and the dark ruby red are equally extraordinary, and that is due to the brilliancy of the wool, which is firmer and, so to say, more transparent than silk, and makes one think of translucent enamel".

Qashqai carpets have been said to be "probably the most famous of all Persian tribal weavings".Qashqai saddlebags, adorned with colorful geometric designs, "are superior to any others made"."