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Saruk Rug

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Antique Saruk rug. The pattern of the field is a lattice of geometric rosettes and leaves on a dark-blue ground; red ground floral border and multiple guard stripes.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Murray Anthony and Bessie Lincoln Potter
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Title: Saruk Rug
Description:
Antique Saruk rug.
The pattern of the field is a lattice of geometric rosettes and leaves on a dark-blue ground; red ground floral border and multiple guard stripes.

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