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拍品专文
The knot count is approximately 8V x 9H per cm. sq.
The souf technique involves the design being piled as in a normal carpet. The ground however is flatwoven, leaving the design in relief both physically and visually. The main structure of souf Kashan carpets has a central cotton core but is woven so that the areas of flatwoven ground are covered by the secondary silk wefts. When a souf carpet becomes worn you begin to see the cotton structure showing through the coloured silk ground. The colour in the field is given by the surface coloured silk warps and wefts. In most Kashan souf rugs and carpets these are both of a uniform colour, as in the two other souf rugs in the same collection, lots 18 and 21. Occasionally one finds additional metal-thread wefting providing a silver field, (see lot 71 in the present sale). Our rug employs an unusual technique whereby the field and border souf ground are of different colours. The red ground of the field changes in the border to a light mauve with the addition of light blue wefts which subtly adds greater depth to the field design.
The pictorial cartouches at the base of the field and within either spandrel, are a feature found on a number of Kashan carpets, in wool and silk. After Cecil Edwards toured Iran in the 1940's to write his famous book, he indicates that this particular design trait was found in carpets of the village of Natanz a little outside Kashan, (A. Cecil Edwards, The Persian Carpet, London, 1953). Natanz is also famous for the shrine of 'Abd al-Samad, originally decorated with some of the best 14th century Kashan lustre tiles ever made (Sheila Blair, The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natan, Iran, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986).
The souf technique involves the design being piled as in a normal carpet. The ground however is flatwoven, leaving the design in relief both physically and visually. The main structure of souf Kashan carpets has a central cotton core but is woven so that the areas of flatwoven ground are covered by the secondary silk wefts. When a souf carpet becomes worn you begin to see the cotton structure showing through the coloured silk ground. The colour in the field is given by the surface coloured silk warps and wefts. In most Kashan souf rugs and carpets these are both of a uniform colour, as in the two other souf rugs in the same collection, lots 18 and 21. Occasionally one finds additional metal-thread wefting providing a silver field, (see lot 71 in the present sale). Our rug employs an unusual technique whereby the field and border souf ground are of different colours. The red ground of the field changes in the border to a light mauve with the addition of light blue wefts which subtly adds greater depth to the field design.
The pictorial cartouches at the base of the field and within either spandrel, are a feature found on a number of Kashan carpets, in wool and silk. After Cecil Edwards toured Iran in the 1940's to write his famous book, he indicates that this particular design trait was found in carpets of the village of Natanz a little outside Kashan, (A. Cecil Edwards, The Persian Carpet, London, 1953). Natanz is also famous for the shrine of 'Abd al-Samad, originally decorated with some of the best 14th century Kashan lustre tiles ever made (Sheila Blair, The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natan, Iran, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986).