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Lot Essay
The knot count measures approximately 9V x 8H knots per cm. sq.
The design is closely based on the 'Salting' rug in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc.no.T.402-1910). From that well-known example, this rug takes its overall conception and the poetic content of the border cartouches. The animal combat groups, though they also appear on some Safavid rugs, are not to be found on the Victoria and Albert carpet. The colour scheme is also reversed, with an indigo medallion against a red field rather than a red field against an indigo medallion.
An almost identical rug is in the Arkas Collection, published Kumkapi rugs from the Arkas Collection, Izmir, 2017, no.12, pp.54-5. George Farrow also noted an example with a similar composition and different colouring which sold Sotheby's London, 13 April 1988, lot 76.
The design is closely based on the 'Salting' rug in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc.no.T.402-1910). From that well-known example, this rug takes its overall conception and the poetic content of the border cartouches. The animal combat groups, though they also appear on some Safavid rugs, are not to be found on the Victoria and Albert carpet. The colour scheme is also reversed, with an indigo medallion against a red field rather than a red field against an indigo medallion.
An almost identical rug is in the Arkas Collection, published Kumkapi rugs from the Arkas Collection, Izmir, 2017, no.12, pp.54-5. George Farrow also noted an example with a similar composition and different colouring which sold Sotheby's London, 13 April 1988, lot 76.