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Lot Essay
The knot count measures approximately 10V x 9H knots per cm. sq.
The pattern on this rug is woven rather more freely and on a larger scale than many rugs of 'Shah Abbas' design from the Koum Kapi workshops. It also has a surprisingly thick silk pile A comparable rug which sold in these Rooms, 25 April 2002, lot 87, likely came from the same workshop as this design. : it takes the same overall field pattern but the two facing palmettes on the horizontal axis are outward facing while the part palmettes which appear four times to the sides of our field appear instead on the vertical axis. The similarity is underlined by an almost identical main border.
Another rug with a similar lattice, but interspersed with animals, is in the Arkas Collection, Izmir (M. Onder Cokay, "Istanbul's masters of silk", HALI 192, p.106).
The pattern on this rug is woven rather more freely and on a larger scale than many rugs of 'Shah Abbas' design from the Koum Kapi workshops. It also has a surprisingly thick silk pile A comparable rug which sold in these Rooms, 25 April 2002, lot 87, likely came from the same workshop as this design. : it takes the same overall field pattern but the two facing palmettes on the horizontal axis are outward facing while the part palmettes which appear four times to the sides of our field appear instead on the vertical axis. The similarity is underlined by an almost identical main border.
Another rug with a similar lattice, but interspersed with animals, is in the Arkas Collection, Izmir (M. Onder Cokay, "Istanbul's masters of silk", HALI 192, p.106).