Lot Essay
Another soumac with the same rare field design was offered at Rippon Boswell & Co., Wiesbaden, 18 November 1989, lot 108, while another which doubles up the field design within a classic Seychour border is in an American Collection (McMullen, Joseph V. and Reichert, Donald O.: The George Walter Vincent and Belle Townley Smith Collection of Islamic Rugs, Springfield, Mass., n.d., no.50). An example of the design executed in a pile rug is published by Bennett (Ian : Oriental Rugs, Volume 1: Caucasian, London, 1981, no.389, p.296), a rug which is very similar in all details to a further soumac sold in these Rooms, 15 October 1987, lot 96.