Rugs and Carpets
We offer fine rugs and carpets four times each year in our Fine & Classic Interiors auctions, with free valuations on items submitted for sale. Sales include early Persian and Turkish carpets, Caucasian and Heriz rugs, and later examples from the Arts & Crafts movement.
Our auctions regularly include high-quality rugs and carpets, from early Persian and Turkish carpets to later examples from the Arts & Crafts movement. A quality rug can transform a room and can also be used as a decorative wall-hanging. Recent highlights include a Bakshaish carpet sold for £3,300, a silk Kaisary carpet sold for £1,200 and a late 19th-century Caucasian Seychour rug sold for £5,000.
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What's selling well
A snapshot of what's attracting strong interest in our recent rugs and carpets sales.
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Late 19th century East Caucasian Seychour rug
This traditional Late 19th century East Caucasian Seychour rug, with Eastern design of stylized gul motifs in the centre, branching into a more delicate floral border which lends a Western twist to the design.
Sold for: £5,000
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Turkoman carpet
20th century Turkoman carpet madder field, nine rows of elephant foot motifs with gulls, multibanded border. 4.65 x 3.72meters. Condition report: Condition good cotton and wool construction.
Sold for: £750
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Mashad carpet
Mashad carpet, with central medallion flanked by red and blue floral fields and borders, 384cm x 299cm (151 inches x 117 inches)
Sold for: £900
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Late 19th-century Lilihan carpet
Late 19th century Lilihan carpet, delicate pink fields with all over harati pattern floral design, blue main border with repeating rosette, salvage tapes marked Ray & Mills, Liverpool, 458cm (179") x 300cm (117").
Sold for: £1,200
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Irish Donegall carpet (c.1910, Voysey style)
Irish Donegall carpet circa 1910, Arts & Crafts style following the designs of C.F.A. Voysey, repeating floral decoration on green ground field, border with stylised flower heads, to reverse side fabric retailers label…
Sold for: £1,200
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Silk Kaisary carpet
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Sold for: £1,200
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Persian carpet
Late 19th century Persian carpet, central indigo blue field with tendril decoration, multiple banded border with trailing vine, repeating decoration, 333cm (131") x 220cm (87").
Sold for: £1,200
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Bakshaish carpet
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Sold for: £3,300
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Large Heriz rug
Red field with blue central medallion and ivory spandrels with geometric flower and leaf decoration. Dimensions: 410cm x 300cm
Sold for: £1,700
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Iranian Seirafian Isfahan rug
This Iranian Seirafian Isfahan rug signed panel to one end translated to 'Woven in Iran, Isfahan, Seyrafian', ivory field with central red medallion surrounded by stylised vine and flower decoration, within a red…
Sold for: £2,300
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