9'2" x 12'5" Pakistani Oriental Rug | French Aubusson Savonnerie Medallion | 200 KPSI, Never Used

This 9'2" x 12'5" hand-knotted wool rug is a full French Aubusson composition worked at roughly 200 knots per square inch, which is an unusually fine count for a piece this large. One enormous ivory medallion sits dead center on a black ground that is buried under dense green acanthus vinework, and the drawing holds its curve cleanly from the medallion cartouches all the way out to the crenellated black outer edge. The pile is clipped low and even, the wool carries a quiet sheen in raking light, and the handle is firm rather than floppy. It has never been on a floor, so the ends, fringe and selvages are untouched, and at this footprint it lands squarely in the 9x12 area rugs range that most formal living and dining rooms are built around. It ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming the hand-knotted construction, materials and origin.

Design and Motifs

The center is a round Savonnerie medallion roughly a third of the rug wide, ringed by a pale scrolling collar and filled with 8 lattice fan cartouches that alternate with curling acanthus leaves. Inside those, mirrored sprays of roses, cornflowers and poppies build a four way symmetry around a single small blue rosette at the exact center. The field around the medallion is a continuous all over vine, no open ground at all, with the scroll repeating at a small enough scale that it reads as texture from standing height. The main border is a broad band of the same vine carrying large shell and fan devices at regular intervals, 5 across each end and 7 down each side, each one drawn with a fine gold trellis and feathered rust plumes. Between field and border runs an ivory guard band of tied ribbons and floral garlands, flanked by lattice, pearl and bead stripes, and the whole thing finishes in a black outer edge with a stepped battlement silhouette in rust and gold. It is a French drawing executed with Oriental knot discipline, and the symmetry survives inspection at close range.

A Black Ground Read Through Forest Green

The base color is a true black, but you rarely see it uncovered: the vine scroll laid over it is a mid forest green with olive and sage shading that turns the whole field into a deep, mossy tone from a few feet away, then separates back into black and green when you stand over it. Against that, the medallion and the ribbon band are ivory shading into warm cream and buff, which is what gives the rug its light. The accent palette is muted rather than bright, running through dusty rose, oxblood, brick rust, soft slate blue, pale gold and small blacks inside the flower heads, and the corner shell motifs pick up a butter yellow that repeats along the border. The rust outer frame and black skirt keep the edges anchored so the pale center does not float. Anyone shopping green rugs for a room with dark wood, brass or oxblood leather will find this one sits in that register naturally.

Woven in Pakistan at 200 Knots Per Square Inch

Pakistan's workshop weavers built their reputation on exactly this kind of work: densely knotted wool on a cotton foundation, cartoon driven European drawing, and knot counts well above what village production delivers. At approximately 200 knots per square inch, the weave here is fine enough to carry the tight curves of an Aubusson scroll without the stepping you see in coarser copies, and the back photograph shows straight, regular rows with no pull or waviness across the width. The pile is wool throughout, hand-spun and clipped short so the pattern stays crisp, and the cotton warps and wefts give the rug the weight and lie-flat behavior that a formal room needs. If you are weighing this against Persian production, the comparison is worth reading in full, since an Oriental rug of this fineness competes on knot count and drawing rather than on country name alone. Woven new, stored flat, never walked on.