10' x 10' Round Silk Oriental Rug | Tabriz Dome Medallion | 2000s Pre-Owned, Excellent Condition

A true 10' x 10' round in pure silk is an uncommon thing to find, and this one is drawn to the full gonbad dome layout rather than a simplified circular pattern. The pile is silk throughout, so the surface shifts from bright to deep as you walk around it, and the ivory center reads almost white from one side and warm champagne from the other. Woven in the 2000s and previously owned in a careful home, it shows no visible wear, full pile height and clean, even fringes at every point of the circle. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming its hand-knotted construction, fiber and measurements. This is a piece for a round entry hall, a rotunda, or directly under a large round dining table, where the radial drawing lines up with the room instead of fighting it.

Design and Motifs

The composition is a gonbad, or dome, drawing borrowed from the great Tabriz workshops and adapted here to a perfect circle. It begins with a tiny concentric rosette at the exact center, ringed in green and coral, and expands outward through a gold lattice of hearts and stylized leaves into a vast ivory dome filled with cartouches, tendrils and miniature blossoms. The dome closes with a scalloped, star-pointed edge that drops onto a deep red surround carrying a curling all-over vine with palmettes, rosettes and small cloud bands. Around that runs a narrow ivory turtle-style guard band, then the wide black main border with yellow and ivory palmettes on scrolling stems, then two more ivory guard stripes and a slim green minor stripe. The concentric logic means the pattern radiates in every direction, so the rug has no wrong side and no awkward viewing angle, which is exactly what a round should do.

Color

The deep red surround is the anchor: a warm brick to oxblood red that the silk pile turns almost garnet where the light runs against the knot. Inside it, the dome is ivory and cream shading into soft champagne and pale wheat, with thousands of small accents in mustard gold, olive and sage green, taupe brown and the occasional pinpoint of pale blue. The very center is the only place where strong color concentrates, with a coral and salmon ring, a green band and a gold rosette at the heart. The wide outer border is a deep inky black that reads near navy in daylight, and it does the heavy lifting: it separates the red from the room and makes the ivory field look brighter than it actually is. Guard stripes in ivory, brown and sage keep the transitions crisp. Against dark wood or a pale stone floor this palette stays warm rather than heavy, and the silk keeps the reds from going flat.

Origin and Weaving Quality

This rug was hand-knotted in China, where workshops have specialized in fine silk reproductions of classical patterns for decades and where much of the world's high-knot-count silk weaving is now done. The detail here tells you what grade of workshop made it: the concentric rings of the dome stay perfectly true in a round format, the tiny cartouches hold their shape at a scale of a few knots each, and the curved vine work in the border never breaks into steps. Those are hard things to do on a circular loom layout and they only happen at a high knot density with a skilled weaver. If you are weighing how a piece like this sits next to city-woven Persian work, our guide on Persian rugs vs Oriental rugs explains the distinction plainly, and you can browse the rest of our hand-knotted silk rugs to compare fineness and sheen. Silk pile of this quality wants a rug pad and moderate traffic, and in return it keeps its luster for generations.