10'4" x 15'1" Persian Isfahan Rug | Ivory Floral Field | Signed Cartouche | Brand New

This Persian Isfahan rug measures 10'4" x 15'1" and was hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a workshop cartouche woven into the top border in Persian script. It is a formal room-size piece: an ivory field carrying a full curvilinear floral system, a rose red main border, and a rosette medallion that anchors the center without crowding the drawing around it. The pile stands at 3/8", full and even from end to end, and the rug has never been on a floor. Every rug we ship carries a certificate of authenticity confirming it is hand-knotted, its origin and its measurements.

Design and Motifs

The field is an all-over floral composition of scrolling vines, palmettes, lotus blossoms and multi petal rosettes, drawn in the curved line that Isfahan workshops are judged on. At the center sits a many pointed star medallion on a rose red ground, filled with tight ivory arabesque tracery and ringed by a wreath of sky blue and gold flower heads, with a small navy and gold roundel at its core. Matching pendants run off the medallion on the long axis and the 4 corner spandrels repeat the same vocabulary at reduced scale. The main border carries alternating palmettes and rosettes on red, and it is framed by narrow guard stripes of ivory and blue with a running vine. The signature cartouche sits centered in the upper border, flanked by blue boteh forms, which is how a workshop piece is normally marked. At 10'4" x 15'1" this belongs with the oversize Persian rugs, long enough to carry a full seating group and still show border on all 4 sides.

A Palette of Ivory, Rose Red and Indigo

Ivory is the governing color here, a warm undyed cream rather than a bright white, and it gives the floral drawing room to read clearly across 15 feet. Against it the weaver worked two blues: a deep indigo navy for the leaf forms and vine outlines, and a soft sky blue for the open flower heads, which keeps the field from looking heavy. Rose red carries the medallion and the wide main border, a cool raspberry tone rather than a brick red, and it repeats in small blossoms scattered through the field so the border and center feel connected. Gold, olive green and touches of aubergine appear in the smaller petals and leaf tips, and a scattering of terracotta warms the mid tones. The overall effect is light and formal, and the ivory ground makes this an easier rug to place than a dark red field of the same size.

Isfahan Weaving and Build Quality

Isfahan in central Persia has been a weaving capital since the Safavid court workshops of the 16th century, and its reputation rests on drawing rather than on color alone: the curved line, the continuous vine, the ability to hold a rosette in perfect symmetry across a wide field. That only works at a high knot count on a tightly set cotton warp, which is what the reverse of this rug shows, with clean rows and the design reading almost as sharply on the back as on the front. The wool is springy and takes light well, so the ivory ground shifts between cream and pale gold as you walk around it. A woven cartouche is the mark of a named workshop rather than a village loom, and on a piece this large it tells you the weaver expected the rug to be looked at closely for a very long time.