This one-of-a-kind collection was acquired over five generations by a French art collecting family. When antique Oriental rugs of this quality surface, collectors with deep pockets are immediately attracted in great numbers. One particularly rare item is shown below. This 175-year-old Bakshaish Camelhair sold quickly despite its listing price of $200,000!
Intercontinental Rug Collection
Bakshaish is a town on the banks of the Talke Rud River in the Heriz region of Northwest Persia. Situated in the mountainous region 60 miles east of the large city of Tabriz, Bakshaish is the oldest rug weaving village in the district of Heriz, noted for carpets with highly artistic, tremendously diverse abstracted adaptations of age-old tribal and classical Persian motifs.
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