Offered by Galerie Buter
Origin: exceptional, very rare and very fine Kirman Soof silk. Signed (Persia) Translation of the signature: order of Master Abol Amol to Kirman. Age: middle nineteenth century. Dimensions: 185x126 cm Density: about 11,000 to 12,000 knots at dm2 (More than a million knots per m2). Technical characteristics: silk velvet embroidered with golden threads. Chains, weft and fringes in natural silk. This is an extremely rare carpet of museum quality .. Description: Orange field embroidered with silk threads and oxidized gilded, decorated earthly paradise, tree life (Cherry) central richly fieuri surrounded by suspended birds (including one picking cherries), flanked by two cypresses in symmetry, an orchid on the left and the dragon in the center attacking the birds. Four borders, the main one recalling the central field.