A RARE MUGHAL SILK RUG

Lot 221
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 221 | A RARE MUGHAL SILK RUG
Valeur estimée
£ 120 000 – 160 000
A RARE MUGHAL SILK RUG

PROBABLY HYDERABAD OR WARANGEL, THE DECCAN, SOUTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

Of 'Flower in Lattice' design, corroded dark brown, uneven scattered spots of wear, localised restorations along the central axis, partially backed

7ft.4in. x 5ft.1in. (223cm. x 155cm.)





Provenance

Church of Apportas, Portugal

With Senator William A. Clark by 1910

Accessioned to the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, by 1948

Important Carpets from the William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sotheby's New York, 5 June 2013, lot 25, from where purchased by the present owner.





Literature

Wilhelm, Valentiner, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs, New York, 1910, no. 48

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: W. F. Roberts Company, 1928, p. 74

"Carpets for the Great Shah: The Near-Eastern Carpets from the W. A. Clark Collection," The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, Washington, D.C., Vol. 2, No. 1, October 1948, p. 25



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs', November 1, 1910 - January 15, 1911

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 'Carpets for the Great Shah', October 3 - November 16, 1948
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