Description: Lavar Kerman Pictorial Rug, Persia, late 19th c, of Layla and Majnoun, figures in the narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi based on a semi-historical Arab story about the 7th century Bedouin poet Qays ibn Al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (or Layla al-Aamiriya). Size: 4'4'' x 6'3'' (132 x 191 cm). Weight: 10 lbs.