A Massive 19thC Meshed Country House Carpet; 20 x 15 ft; c.1880 sub-Mirrors & Lighting each set of bowls was

each set of bowls was made from the same log of lignum vitae

shell being hoisted into position

portraits and shapes

The lion or leopard had been used for thousands of years

A Massive 19thC Meshed Country House Carpet; 20 x 15 ft; c.1880 sub-Mirrors & Lighting each set of bowls wasOrigin: PersiaStyle: MeshedProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1880Length: 622 cms 20 feet (approx)Width: 455 cms 15 feet (approx)Of enormous country house proportions the very good quality Meshed carpet of wonderful intricacy with a typically busy central field of repeating leaves and palmettes, to a dark red ground with beautiful tones of powder blues, ambers and greens, the whole surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and clearly made