The rust-red field is animated by an axial arrangement of slender cypress-like sprays and palmette clusters, interspersed with small grazing animals rendered in cream and pale blue that appear paired and mirrored throughout the composition. A pale olive-green border filled with scrolling palmettes, rosettes, and angular leaf forms in coral, ivory, and navy frames the field, separated by a narrow patterned guard stripe on a soft pink ground.
An ivory field is arranged in a lattice of interlocking diamonds and stepped medallions, each cell filled with radiating star-form blossoms in rust, navy, and soft gold, alternating with small hooked and checkered devices. A rust-red border of repeating palmettes and vinery frames the composition, separated from the field by a narrow ivory guard band patterned with meandering floral scrolls, with additional slender striped guard stripes in blue-grey and cream running along the inner edge.
The rust-red field carries an all-over lattice of angular vinework in ivory, teal, and mustard, punctuated by repeating cruciform palmettes and small rosettes arranged in vertical columns. A broad dark teal border frames the composition with scrolling palmette-and-leaf vines in ivory, gold, and terracotta, flanked by narrower guard stripes of stylized floral trellis. The overall palette holds close to brick red, deep teal, cream, and ochre throughout.
An ivory field is filled with an overall lattice of large palmettes and serrated leaves in brick red, soft blue-green, and gold, arranged in a symmetrical, mirrored repeat down the length of the piece. The wide rust-red border carries a repeating cartouche of stylized flowerheads in blue, cream, and ochre, framed by narrow guard stripes of small angular blossoms. The palette throughout stays within terracotta, faded blue, and warm ivory, with the corner border motifs resolving cleanly at each turn.
An ivory ground carries an all-over lattice of scrolling palmettes and lobed cartouche medallions in rust, ochre, and sage green, arranged in a repeating diagonal pattern across the field. The main border is a deep petrol blue filled with rosettes and serrated leaves, framed by narrower guard stripes of camel and cream floral vining. Coloring throughout is soft and slightly faded, with rust and blue as the dominant accents against the pale ground.
This elegant and important carpet epitomizes the finest weaving produced by Ziegler & Company, one of the first European firms to begin designing and producing large carpets in Persia specifically for a discriminating Western clientele. Ziegler carpets are known for their beautiful composition, exceptional artistry, the use of the finest wool, as well as vivid natural vegetal dyes.
An octagonal medallion field in a deep rust-red ground is filled with an overall diamond lattice of scrolling vine, hosting small palmettes and rosettes in blue, ivory, and soft green. Ivory spandrels at each corner carry sprays of angular, saw-toothed leaves in rust and slate blue, and the composition is enclosed by a dark indigo border of repeating rosettes and palmette forms between narrow secondary guard stripes in rust and ivory.
An overall lattice of scrolling vine and palmette forms spreads across a mustard-gold ground, punctuated by small polychrome rosettes in coral, ivory, and slate blue that repeat in a mirrored, symmetrical arrangement top to bottom. The wide dark indigo border carries a continuous rhythm of stylized floral cartouches connected by curling stems, framed by narrower coral and cream guard stripes with small repeating blossoms. The overall palette stays within gold, rust, indigo, and cream, with the pattern density concentrated at the corners and midpoints of the field.
Commissioned by Shah Abus for Persian Courts
The deep teal field carries an allover repeat of cypress-like trees and vases sprouting curling ivory tendrils, interspersed with palmettes in rust, gold, and pale blue. A rust-ground border filled with rosettes and scrolling vine frames the field, flanked by narrower guard stripes in ivory and blue with small floral devices.
