7'9" x 10'10" Persian Tabriz Rug | Coral Red Field, Navy Medallion | Excellent Condition

A quietly confident room-size piece, this 7'9" x 10'10" Persian Tabriz was hand-knotted in northwest Persia on a cotton foundation with a 3/8" wool pile that still stands full and even across the whole field. The drawing is classic workshop Tabriz: one rounded navy medallion held inside an ivory arabesque halo, a coral red ground carried by curling vines and palmettes, and 4 ivory corner spandrels that frame the field without crowding it. At just under 8 feet wide it sits in the practical 8x11 Persian rugs range, large enough to carry a full seating group yet short enough for rooms where a 9x12 would run tight. Condition is excellent, with clean selvages, straight ends and original fringe, and the rug ships with a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The center holds a rounded navy medallion built around a small coral rosette panel, ringed by delicate blossoms and finished with a broad ivory halo of scrolling arabesque that reads almost like lace against the red. Above and below it, slender stemmed finials rise on the long axis and end in crowned palmettes. The open field is worked with large sunflower-style palmettes, split leaves and long serrated saz leaves that curve back on themselves, joined by thin vine scrolls and beaded stems that keep the ground moving without turning busy. Each of the 4 corners carries an ivory spandrel drawn with 8 petal star flowers and trailing leaf sprays. The main navy border alternates upright pink and rose blossom clusters with fanned leaf sprays, and it is held between camel gold guard stripes carrying a fine repeating vine.

A Coral Red Field with Navy and Ivory

The field is a soft coral red, a shade lighter and warmer than a brick or blood red, closer to terracotta rose, and it takes light well enough that the pile shifts tone as you walk around it. Against that ground the deep indigo navy of the medallion and main border gives the rug its structure, while ivory does the lifting: the arabesque halo, the corner spandrels and the flower centers all read as soft cream rather than bright white. Running through the drawing is a distinct blue-green, ranging from teal to a sea green in the leaves and fan sprays, with touches of rose pink, lavender and camel gold in the blossoms and guard stripes. For buyers building a room around warm tones, it sits comfortably with other red and burgundy Persian rugs while staying far softer in the hand than a saturated red.

Woven in Tabriz, Northwest Persia

Tabriz sits in the northwest corner of Persia and has been the country's most organized weaving city for centuries, working on vertical looms with a designer's cartoon rather than from memory. Fineness there is counted in Raj, the number of knots across a gereh of roughly 2.75 inches, and the discipline of the system is what lets a Tabriz workshop draw a true curved line, a continuous vine and a symmetrical medallion at this scale. You can see that training here in the even spacing of the palmettes, the mirrored corner spandrels and the tight, regular knotting visible on the back. The cotton foundation keeps the rug flat and square, the dense wool pile handles real traffic, and pieces like this are why a Tabriz remains the default recommendation for a formal room that has to look right for decades.