A Kashan rug with silk highlights, Iran, mid-20th century, 224…
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A Kashan rug with silk highlights, Iran, mid-20th century, 224 x 140 cm. This classic Kashan rug possesses all the characteristics that have contributed to the well deserved reputation for weaving excellence of this oasis city situated half way between Tehran and Isfahan in central Iran. Set against a lustrous midnight blue field, its directional design of flowering shrubs and realistically drawn floral sprays is drawn in the manner of illustrated Persian poetry books. Its regular weave and relatively high knot count contribute to the clarity of the field design and well spaced main border. The use of a clear light blue, yellow and ivory contribute to the elegance of the traditional colour palette.

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  • Manner of .... / Style of ..... - A cataloguing term where the item, in the opinion of the cataloguer is a work in the style of the artist, craftsman or designer, possibly of a later period.
  • Ivory - Ivory is a hard white material that comes from the tusks of elephants, mammoth, walrus and boar, or from the teeth of hippopotamus and whales. The ivory from the African elephant is the most prized source of ivory. Although the mammoth is extinct, tusks are still being unearthed in Russia and offered for sale.

    Ivory has been used since the earliest times as a material for sculpture of small items, both in Europe and the east, principally China and Japan.

    In Asia ivory has been carved for netsuke, seals, okimono, card cases, fan supports, animals and other figures and even as carved tusks.

    In the last 200 years in Europe ivory has been used to carve figures, for elaborate tankards, snuff boxes, cane handles, embroidery and sewing accessories, in jewellery and as inlay on furniture. Its more practical uses include being used for billiard balls, buttons, and a veneers on the top of piano keys.

    The use and trade of elephant ivory have become controversial because they have contributed to Due to the decline in elephant populations because of the trade in ivory, the Asian elephant was placed on Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in 1975, and in January 1990, the African elephant was similarly listed. Under Appendix One, international trade in Asian or African elephant ivory between member countries is forbidden. Unlike trade in elephant tusks, trade in mammoth tusks is legal.

    Since the invention of plastics, there have been many attempts to create an artificial ivory

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