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Lot Essay
The knot count measures 8V x 8H per cm. sq.
The cerulean-blue colour of the field is given by the coloured silk warps and wefts. In most Kashan souf rugs and carpets these are both of a uniform colour but sometimes one finds additional metal-thread wefting providing a silvered field. A small number of souf carpets use this technical feature to create field and border designs that are of different colour. The present rug is exemplary in its execution, design and colour and is comparable in all of these, to a smaller souf rug sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2020, lot 198.
The cerulean-blue colour of the field is given by the coloured silk warps and wefts. In most Kashan souf rugs and carpets these are both of a uniform colour but sometimes one finds additional metal-thread wefting providing a silvered field. A small number of souf carpets use this technical feature to create field and border designs that are of different colour. The present rug is exemplary in its execution, design and colour and is comparable in all of these, to a smaller souf rug sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2020, lot 198.