A monumental late 19th-century Persian Sultanabad carpet from around 1890, measuring approximately 396 × 569 cm (about 13’0″ × 18’8″). The composition is built on a multicolor field in the formal Sultanabad decorative vocabulary, at a true gallery-format proportion suited to formal long living rooms, grand dining rooms, hotel reception floors, and the largest residential salon spaces.
Sultanabad was a major hand-knotting center in the Arak province of west-central Persia (now Iran) in the late 19th century, producing large decorative wool carpets at a scale and quality that put them in continuous demand for European and American interiors. Carpets of this period typically combine allover designs, repeated medallions, and Persian formal vocabularies — Herati, Harshang palmettes, rosettes, and arabesques — on cotton foundations. Pieces in this size and condition from this era are now well over 130 years old.
Hand-knotted wool. Authentic one-of-a-kind antique.
At a glance
· Origin: Persia (Iran), Sultanabad (Arak province) · Period: Circa 1890 · Material: Wool · Weave: Hand-knotted (pile)
· Type: Sultanabad · Dimensions: ~396 × 569 cm (≈13’0″ × 18’8″)
· Ground color: Multicolor · Shape: Rectangle · SKU: 26097
