FIGURATIVE CARPET, PERSIA, RECENT MANUFACTURE, CIRCA 1900 CM 172X130 Sound, needs professional washing. FIGURATIVE PERSIAN RUG, CIRCA 1950. NEEDS A PROFESSIONAL WASHING, GOOD CONDITION. The composition of this rug is the one followed by many workshops in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and used throughout Iran. It shows the enthroned Shah. The inscription above shows Shah Nader seated on his Takht-i-Tavus (Peacock Throne); today part of the imperial treasury and on display in the Golestanin Palace. Depicted here in the company of his court officials. The inscription states that this carpet was commissioned by Halm Mirza Agha. Nader was the founder of the Afsharian dynasty of Turkic lineage, ruled Persia between 1736 and 1750 and had Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan, as its capital. Crowned on 8 March 1736, his reign ended in 1747 and he died in 1747. He was succeeded by his grandson Ali Qoli, who renamed himself Adil Shah (Righteous King).