Ghiordes / 15940

This Ghiordes antique rug, 284 x 381 cm, is worked in a restrained palette of cream, ivory, warm beige, faded rose, and burgundy. The design is layered and fragmentary, with a worn open centre, intricate border bands, and traces of floral and geometric motifs that appear and recede across the field. Medium distress brings visible wear, softened colour, and character at the edges, giving the wool surface an honest, timeworn presence. Circa 1850 - 1870, it reflects the quiet complexity and faded formality that define an antique rug of this type.