Bakhtiari Garden Panel 1857

This exquisite vintage Persian Bakhtiari rug from the second quarter of the 20th century features the highly coveted Garden Panel design — one of the most celebrated and visually beautiful compositional formats in the entire Persian tribal rug tradition. The rug is artfully divided into four vertical panels, each displaying stylized floral compositions, blooming branches, and miniature trees that evoke the walled garden paradise of classical Persian art — the garden as a symbol of divine order, natural abundance, and earthly beauty.

The color palette is both delicate and vivid, featuring rare pale yellow, soft pink, French blue, and a variety of greens, accented by deeper tones of red, brown, and indigo — each hue derived from natural vegetable dyes whose abrash and tonal variations enrich the rug's character and confirm its authenticity. The exceptionally detailed border is among the most beautiful found in vintage tribal rugs, completing the composition with formal elegance. The Bakhtiari tribal confederation of Western Persia produced Garden Panel rugs of extraordinary quality and artistic ambition — pieces that combined the tribal weaver's technical mastery with a compositional sophistication more commonly associated with workshop production.

Dimensions:   4’ 6” x 7’ 2"

Date of Manufacture: 2nd Quarter of the 1900s

Place of Origin: NW Persia (Bakhtiari tribal region)

Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation with vegetable dyes

Condition: Wear consistent with age and use

SKU: 1857