10' x 13'11" Persian Kashan Rug | Antique Ivory Floral Medallion | Excellent Condition

At 10' x 13'11", this is a true room size antique of the sort that older Persian Kashan rugs are prized for: a pale ivory ground carrying a single rosette medallion, drawn with the curved, unhurried line that only comes out of a workshop town. The wool has the faint sheen that decades of use give good Kashan fleece, the pile lies low and even across all 4 corners, and the cotton foundation seen on the reverse in the final photograph is straight and tight. Buyers shopping the 10x14 Persian rug range will notice how much lighter this piece feels than the usual red field Kashan, which makes it unusually easy to live with. Every rug we sell ships with a certificate of authenticity, and if you want to understand what the back, the wear pattern and the palette are telling you, our guide on how to date an oriental rug walks through the same clues we use.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a lobed rosette medallion built from concentric rings of tiny petals, with a pale blue heart and a dark navy outline that keeps it legible from across the room. Above and below it run slender pendants ending in cypress-like finials, and the 4 spandrels are filled with dense palmette clusters rather than left open, which is the mark of a patient drawing. Across the field, split-leaf arabesques and curling vine scroll move in every direction, carrying rosettes, lotus heads, serrated leaves and small bird-like blossoms. The main border is a broad navy band of alternating palmettes and turning vines, framed on both sides by narrow rose and ivory guard stripes of running flowerheads. Nothing repeats mechanically here; look along any stretch of border and the fillers shift slightly, the way hand-drawn cartoons always do.

An Ivory Field Read in Rose, Navy and Sky Blue

The ground is a warm ivory that leans toward oatmeal and cream rather than white, so it never looks cold under lamplight. Against it the weavers set a full range of softened tones: dusty rose and salmon in the corner clusters and the guard stripes, a deep inky navy in the main border and the medallion outline, and a distinctive pale sky blue that flickers through the vine work and fills the medallion center. Sage and olive green appear in the leaves, with touches of soft gold, terracotta and faded aubergine in the smaller blossoms. These are old dyes that have settled with age, which is why the contrast is gentle rather than sharp, and why the rug reads as one continuous ivory surface from a standing height and only reveals its color range when you are close. It is a palette that sits comfortably with oak floors, cream walls, and both antique and contemporary furniture.

Kashan: The Weaving Town and the Quality of the Weave

Kashan sits in central Persia, north of Isfahan, and its weaving lineage runs back to the Safavid court workshops that produced some of the most famous carpets ever made. The town's reputation rests on two things: soft lustrous local wool that takes dye beautifully and holds a sheen for generations, and a disciplined workshop system where a designer's cartoon governs every knot, which is how a medallion this symmetrical survives across almost 14 feet of length. The back of this piece shows a fine, even knot count on a cotton warp and weft, with no bowing and no repaired areas visible, which is the sort of construction that lets a rug of this age still take daily traffic. Kashan is also the design most people already know without realizing it: when you watch Shark Tank there is a Persian Kashan on the floor.