A SERAPI (HERIZ) CARPET, East Azerbaijan (north-west Persia), c. 1885.

This is a beautiful example of an old Serapi collector's carpet with the brown-colour field containing stylized light vines, palmetto and flowers centered by an octagon form with dark blue within a red medallion within beautiful four beige coloured corners, within ivory and beige border decorated with a bat palmetto and Herati design.