A Massive 19thC Meshed Country House Carpet; 20 x 15 ft; c.1880 sub-Mirrors & Lighting having painted features including a

having painted features including a painted orange cap

The lion or leopard had been used for thousands of years

portraits and shapes

teething or grappling doll

The extensive ruins are now in the care of English Heritage

A Massive 19thC Meshed Country House Carpet; 20 x 15 ft; c.1880 sub-Mirrors & Lighting having painted features including aOrigin: PersiaStyle: MeshedProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1880Length: 622 cms 20 feet (approx)Width: 455 cms 15 feet (approx)Of enormous country house proportions the very good quality Meshed carpet of wonderful intricacy with a typically busy central field of repeating leaves and palmettes, to a dark red ground with beautiful tones of powder blues, ambers and greens, the whole surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and clearly made