Number siz57
Type Village
Material Wool
Style Tree
Origin Bakhshayesh
Size 200 x 151
Age 1820
A historic and lost masterpiece, this is an extremely rare Queen B with the legendary weeping willow design named after the enigmatic tragic hero Majnoun. It is rare for its ghaliche size format. The 4 others of type that are known all have a prayer niche which this does not have but they share the rectilinear curving of the trees and the speckled spandrels in the corner. One may say this is actually a double mehrab prayer rug. The condition is great for its roughly 200 years of age. It arrived the week after my book went to print which is why I didn't manage to include it there.
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