FINE SILK GHOUM RUG, (Iran. Shah's era, circa 1950 - 1960) The first silk Ghoums Ivory field decorated with scrolls and garlands of fine crenellated stems with finely drawn polychrome flowers and foliage, adorned with a central midnight-blue crenellated floral medallion, inlaid with a multicoloured floral composition, on an old gold background forming the four spandrels with polychrome floral wreaths. Three borders, the main one midnight blue, decorated with rows of interlacing twisted branches inlaid with multicoloured floral bulbs. Silk velvet on silk foundation: silk warp, weft and fringes (100% silk). Very fine. Density approx. 10,000 knots per dm2. H. 175 x W. 107 cm.