Lot 144

TABRIZ RUG

A representative variation on a very beautiful design, sometimes called "jangali" (jungle) in Persian. The elaborate tangle of plants and trees represents a lush garden of paradise, and the striking composite flowers and palmettos, as well as the stylized and somewhat geometrized bowing branches of the mourning willows (which in the Persian world, however, unlike our traditions, symbolize happiness, joy and above all love) are particularly striking. A successful specimen in very vivid colours.