(High-Collectible) ("The California Collection") The Bakshaish style is renowned for startling innovation, exemplified by this mesmerizing piece's stunning and inspired overall pattern. This carpet's inherent artistic balance creates an atmosphere of serenity and boundless fascination. This inventive carpet revels in springtime imagery of blooming trees, woven into this carpet with a stencil-like effect for an exceptional feat of graphic genius. Exhibiting this style's central artistic impulse of ceaseless spontaneity, it offers a lifetime of exploration of the charming variations in this canopy of constant re-invention. The pattern's asymmetrical placement on the field also creates a subtly drifting sense of movement. Advancing the composition's uplifting central theme of the tremendous potential of abundance on the earth, the rug's use of color is rich, festive, and somewhat exotic for Bakshaish and brewed by the hands of a dye-making virtuoso. Dextrous abrash color shifts gently ripple the deep cornflower blue ground to support hues of oxblood, electrum, periwinkle, vermilion, ivory, and notes of guava. The eye-catching series of border bands enclose this enchanting forest while amplifying its visual effect. Its condition remains fantastic after approximately 170 years of age.

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