Antique Persian Kerman Farukh Rashid Rug Size: 11'7" × 17' Date: 1900s Material: Wool on Cotton Kerman in southeast Iran has been producing finely woven carpets for centuries, and the Farukh Rashid designation identifies pieces from a specific workshop tradition known for exceptional fineness of knotting and a particular approach to all-over floral composition. At 11'7" × 17', this is a carpet scaled for a grand room. The warm gold field is covered end to end with a continuous all-over floral lattice — thousands of individual blossoms, rosettes, curving vines, and leafy sprays in madder red, sky blue, burgundy, olive green, and ivory spreading evenly across the surface without a central medallion to anchor them. The pattern has no dominant focal point; it simply fills the field completely and consistently from edge to edge, which at this scale creates an almost tapestry-like richness. The drawing is fine and precise throughout, the vine work maintaining consistent weight across the full seventeen feet of the carpet. The wide navy border carries an elaborate continuous floral scroll with large palmette accents, detailed enough to function as a composition in its own right, and framed by narrow guard borders in madder and ivory. The contrast between the warm gold field and the deep navy border is the defining visual quality of the piece — luminous at the centre, anchored firmly at the edges. A carpet of this size, fineness, and condition from a named Kerman workshop tradition is genuinely difficult to replace.