The knot count measures approximately 6H x 5V per cm sq.

This elegant rug is an unusual example woven in silk from the Sultanabad region. Very few silk rugs and carpets from the region are known, although Annette Ittig attributes one silk medallion rug to Ziegler on account of its close similarity with a Ziegler cartoon (Annette Ittig, ‘Ziegler’s Carpet Cartoons’, in HALI, no.80, 1995, pp.82-87, p.84). This rug retains the palette of powder blue and apricot-orange reminiscent of a Sultanabad carpet recently sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2021, lot 216. Woven on a smaller scale, it nonetheless retains the wide proportions of the border, relatively bold scale drawing of the floral lattice, and narrow blue outer stripe, all typical features of Sultanabad weaving.