{"product_id":"11048-7x10-persian-handmade-mashhad-vintage-rug","title":"11048 - Persian Mashhad Area Rug 7'5\" x 9'10\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA round floral medallion opens out across the middle of this delightful rug. Worked on a black cherry field, rows of small flowers, palmettes and curling vines cover every part of it. The medallion has a cream and blue rosette at its core, and its lobed outline reaches far into the field. Blue corner pieces, filled with the same fine flowers, close the four corners. The main border is navy, with red and pink flower heads and leaves, between narrow guard stripes. The pile is low across the rug. It holds a room in muted red and blue, with cream flecks keeping the dense pattern bright. At 7'5\" by 9'10\", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImam Riza, the eighth Shi’ite imam, is buried at Mashhad, and the city is a great destination of pilgrims. In 1877 the Qajar shah gave London’s South Kensington Museum 14 carpets chosen by his ministers to represent the best being woven, one of them made in Mashhad. Mashhad is the great weaving city of Khorasan in northeastern Persia, and it specialized in large formats. Its rugs show deep madder red grounds, a single dominant medallion, and borders wide enough to hold their own at scale. This rug has a dark red ground, one round medallion and a wide navy border. Its red is muted toward black cherry, and blue runs through the medallion, the corners and the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery rug we sell is one of a kind, and this is the only one like it. Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, vintage, approx. 50 years (1970s). Condition: professionally washed \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68013933625657,"sku":"AL_11048_225x300","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11048_1.jpg?v=1794105807","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11048-7x10-persian-handmade-mashhad-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}