(High-Collectible) ("The California Collection") This genre-bending Bakshaish is an elemental masterpiece, supported by a culture that valued spontaneous, imaginative gestures while maintaining its independently developed visual canon. An astonishing level of conceptual synchronization is achieved in this room-size carpet, balancing both great spontaneity and overall harmony. Three prodigious stalks ascend the strawberry field toward the heavens while producing a concatenation of uber-stylized lilies, fruit clusters, and serrated leaves in this incredible fantasy scape. Populating the background are chains of diamonds, numerous free-floating pinwheel and cubist florets. Dextrous shifts in scale between designs heighten the viewer’s rapt attention, frustrating any trace of tedium. Stepped corner spandrels are based on a golden bronzy camelhair ground, which also shades many motifs and adorns the outer edge of the carpet. Their specialty hue, 'Bakshaish Blue,' glows from the main border to silhouette a display of rosettes and oak leaves. This versatile, nearly square carpet offers a splendid glowing patina at 175 years old, lending it an entrancing sense of triumphant visual depth.

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