One of the best antique Bakshaish carpets we have seen in the last 30 years, dating from 1870-1880 and in outstanding original condition, with a sublime soft wool pile all over.  Bakshaish carpets were woven in large and smaller sizes and often with bold geometric designs, and vivid colours. Their designs can be quite abstract and often comprise of a central motif which sprawls out in one large design to the corner spandrels or with a smaller medallion inside a larger medallion.This Bakshaish however, has a wonderful all over design, using smaller abstract palmette designs in ivory and brown shades, using vines in varying shades of blue and brown tones too.  The main border is a wonderful blue, with unusual geometric motifs and scattered smaller flowers, we can see some fantastic dye change too, using lighter shades of pale blue.Generally older pieces were more open than younger examples woven from the Heriz region in the North of Persia.  The charm and characteristics of antiq...