14'5" x 19'8" Persian Tabriz Rug | Garden Panel Pictorial Design | Signed Oversize Palace Piece

This is a true palace piece: 14'5" x 19'8" of hand-knotted wool laid out as a garden panel, with a pictorial landscape medallion at its heart and a signature cartouche woven into the end border. Pieces of this scale were made to order for large formal rooms, and very few survive in this state of pile and color. The weaver worked the field as a grid of small compartments, each one a separate picture, which is far more demanding than repeating a single medallion across 283 square feet. The wool has a low, even 3/8" pile on a cotton foundation, so the drawing stays crisp and the rug lies flat under heavy furniture. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a hand-knotted Persian rug, and it belongs among the genuinely rare oversize Persian rugs that can cover a great room without a seam or a border of bare floor.

Design and Motifs

The field is a four seasons garden panel, an all over compartment layout in which slender floral bands divide the ground into dozens of framed scenes. Some compartments hold arched niches with flowering columns and cypress trees, others hold single blossoming shrubs, and others open into small landscapes with hills, streams, water birds and flying cranes. At the center a large shield-shaped cartouche breaks the grid: inside it a blue mountain range rises behind an ivory meadow where two birds stand among poppies and willows, a pair of deer graze on the bank, and a pond below holds fish and a sailing skiff. The main border repeats this storytelling in a chain of lobed panels, each carrying its own miniature garden or animal vignette, and it is framed by narrow guard stripes of small rosettes and running vine. The four corners resolve cleanly, with the panel grid stopping against the border rather than being cut mid-motif, which is the mark of a properly drawn cartoon rather than a copied one.

A Multi Color Palette Held Together by Rust and Ivory

Multi color is the honest description here, but the palette is disciplined rather than busy. Warm rust brown carries the main border and reappears in the compartment grounds, giving the whole rug a soft cinnamon glow from a distance. Against it sit ivory and cream panels, deep navy outlines, brick red pockets, forest and sage green foliage, and a pale teal that lights up the water and sky scenes. Rose pink rosettes and small touches of gold thread through the guard stripes and keep the darker panels from closing in. The center medallion carries the strongest blue in the rug, a clear lapis that pulls the eye straight to the landscape, while the ivory meadow beneath it is the lightest note on the entire field. Because no single color owns more than a quarter of the surface, the rug sits comfortably with red, blue, green or neutral upholstery, and it reads as warm and earthy rather than as a hard color statement.

Woven in Tabriz, Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working from drawn cartoons on strong vertical looms with the Turkish knot and a hook-ended tool that lets a weaver work faster without losing the line. That discipline is exactly what a rug this size requires: the panel grid has to stay square across more than 19 feet of length, and the pictorial scenes have to keep their proportions from the first row to the last. The signature cartouche shown in the close-up photograph places this piece with a named workshop rather than an anonymous village loom, and workshop production is the reason the drawing, the color balance and the border resolution all hold up under inspection. The wool is dense and low-cut, the cotton foundation is tight and even on the reverse, and the rug remains in excellent condition with full pile and clean, original ends and sides.