RugPro wrote:I thought your rug had a slight, slight, slight hint of a plum tone in the red but that could have been the image. which one is the carpet he responded about?
Just saw this. Pro....I regret little, cause I know it all happens to grow us, but one thing I do more and more (agian, now) is my hurling out the pics of my rug the minute they left with it. I couldn't BEAR to see it at that moment and for long time after.
That pic which escaped of the edge.....cause it was in another folder ,NOT THE RUG FOLDER... is not good depiction at all. It seems the flash did not catch any part of the rug. I know the red when I come upon it now.....and that is totally The Red. Alos I see frm that snipet the gold in the border also looks muddy. It was anything but.
I never mentioned I inherited TWO Sarouks. The other, same circa, was in my parents' livingroom; mine--the one I kept, was in the diningroom. Other one was HUGE, around maybe 14 by 17 or something. It too was gorgeous.....but the red was much deeper. And the pile, I see retrospectively, rememb,r I grew up on these rugs and took them for granted., the pile was AMAZING, dense, lush, DEEP, perfect. It must have been made of iron. I sold it at auction in New Orleans. The guy told me everyone was disappointed it only brought $2,700. I had no clue so I thought that was a lot.
I remember when I was little, my mother had the livingroom furniture reupholstered. John Jelliff parlor suite (3 pieces), the famous rosewood one with mop center medallion in the permanent collection of the Met, fine 19th C other stuff. As if it were yesterday, I remember how long she spent choosing the fabrics.....all jewel tones from that huge Sarouk rug. The accent colors, not the red. She did the sofa in cut velvet, mustard gold, and the two wing chairs in turquoise brocade, etc.
Assuming many people who visit this site are antiquarians, they will know that John Jelliff, right across the river in New Jersey, made fine furniture in the Renaissance Revival period, around 1860. Very formal, not my taste. In 19th C, apart from Blelter, I like more curving lines and cabriole, etc. I think my parents got this suite at auction when I was little. I never got into it at all. I didn't even like it much.
In the rug I kept and adored...No plum, Pro. Tho it was plumb. hah hah. I mean, it lay flat. Which I assumed all of them did .I assumed a lot in my ignorance, boy. No, the red in the rug I posted WAS THE RED, believe me.
Some of the reds in the rugs I liked on live auction have been between the red of giant Sarouk and this red of my beloved rug. but all the Sarouks of this era I am attracted to are within that range....and all the rugs have an X factor in luminosity and integrity of design. I now see most DO NOT.
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Now....I just went into my filing cabinet. And I found the cataloges from the auction house in Ohio I chose to sell some items. They charged double the seller's fee, no buyer's fee, but I chose them cause the guy had integrity. Everyone told me I was a fool.....but I wasn't in this. U must answer to YOURSELF in many important things in life.
I fear I will be abrogating this site's protocols, being moved now to what I am... but if so, someone can just delete the post, I will make it separate. I will scan and upload. Not in color. Breaks my heart to see again, the chair upholstery was so decrepit when my died. but I can see it all in color in my mind.....and that huge, Deep lush, vivid Sarouk under everything. He also had no reserves.
