{"product_id":"11118-8x10-persian-handmade-mashhad-vintage-rug","title":"11118 - Persian Mashhad Oversized Rug 7'7\" x 10'4\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA navy and cream medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Set within a burgundy field, a cream frame with curving vine edges shapes the open ground. At the center, a handsome lobed navy star medallion with scalloped cream edges holds a cream star at its core, among leaves and blossoms. A palmette pendant floats above it and another below. Cream spandrels fill the corners, holding brown and sky blue leaf sprays. The main border is navy, set with long cartouches with burgundy cores between rosettes. Guard stripes on either side carry small burgundy rosettes and sky blue leaves. Pale specks dot the field where the pile is low. It brings depth to a dining room, the burgundy and navy kept bright by the sky blue guards. At 7'7\" by 10'4\", 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\u003eIn 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. The Textile Museum in Washington counts Mashhad among the Khorasan cities cited as sources of fine carpets. 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 shares that plan: one navy medallion on a deep burgundy ground, with a wide navy border holding it all in. Cream spandrels and a cream frame curve around the field, so the red sits as an open shape at the center.\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":68015257289017,"sku":"AL_11118_230x315","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11118_1.jpg?v=1794127969","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11118-8x10-persian-handmade-mashhad-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}