16'10" x 19'7" Chobi Peshawar Ziegler Oversize Rug | Sage Green, All-over Floral | Rare Palace Size

This is a Chobi Peshawar Ziegler in a genuine palace size, 16'10" x 19'7", one of the hardest formats to find in a hand-knotted rug and nearly square in its proportions. It is brand new and never used, hand-knotted in wool on a cotton foundation, with a soft sage green field carrying a spacious all-over floral design and no central medallion. A rug this large is defined first by its size, so if you are shopping the very top of the size range it belongs with our oversize rugs. Every rug we ship includes a certificate of authenticity.

Design and Motifs

The field follows the classic Ziegler Sultanabad layout: a graceful all-over pattern of large lotus palmettes, rosettes and open flower heads linked by long, curving leaf vines that travel from edge to edge. There is no medallion, and the spacing is deliberately generous, so the design breathes and the green ground stays visible between the blossoms. That openness is exactly what makes this style so easy to decorate around, since the eye is never pulled to a single center. Framing the field is a wide tan border carrying its own floral vine of palmettes and leaves, set between narrow guard stripes, a calm and balanced boundary that suits the quiet drawing inside it.

Color and Palette

The coloring is soft and vegetable-dyed, which is what the word Chobi refers to. The field is a gentle sage green that leans toward celadon, and the florals are drawn in warm gold, tan and camel with quiet touches of soft brown, rust and blue-grey. The border warms to a mellow tan and gold. Nothing is bright or saturated, so the whole rug has the washed, low-contrast look of an antique even though it is new, the kind of palette that settles into a large formal room and works with almost any wood tone or upholstery.

Origin and Weave

This piece is hand-knotted in Pakistan, in the Peshawar tradition that has become the home of the Chobi Ziegler style, a modern revival of the graceful nineteenth-century Sultanabad designs once woven for Western drawing rooms. At roughly 260 to 280 knots per square inch, with a wool pile on a cotton foundation, it is a substantial, well-built Oriental rug. Woven at this palace scale in such a soft, usable palette, it is a genuinely rare find, and a rug of this footprint anchors a great room or grand entry the way few furnishings can.