A RARE IMPERIAL MUGHAL PASHMINA CARPET

Lot 200
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ID 828736
Lot 200 | A RARE IMPERIAL MUGHAL PASHMINA CARPET
Valeur estimée
£ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
A RARE IMPERIAL MUGHAL PASHMINA CARPET

NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1650

Of 'Lattice and Flower' design, consisting of naturalistic flowers placed in the compartments of a lattice formed by twisting leafy vines, pashmina wool, silk warp and weft, light localised wear, some restoration, reduced in length

9ft. x 8ft.11in. (275cm. x 274cm.)





Provenance

Berdj Achdjian, Paris 1991

The Wher Collection, Switzerland, May-December 1991

Textile Gallery, London, December 1991-October 1992

Private Collection, October 1992, thence by descent



Literature

Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 (exhibition catalogue), frontispiece, pp.105,106, and 170 (cat.No.26)

Daniel Walker, “Court and Export,” in HALI, Vol. 95, Nov.1997, pp.97-98

Steven Cohen, “The Use of Fine Goat Hair for the Production of Luxury Textiles,” in Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer, and Pirjetta Mildh, eds.,

Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700, Oxford and Genoa: The May Beattie Archive and the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, and The Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art, 2010, pp.130-131, fig.16





Exhibited

'Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998



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