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THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
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A RARE IMPERIAL MUGHAL PASHMINA CARPET LITERATURE:
NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1650 Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era, New
Of 'Lattice and Flower' design, consisting of naturalistic flowers placed in the York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 (exhibition catalogue), frontispiece,
compartments of a lattice formed by twisting leafy vines, pashmina wool, silk pp.105,106, and 170 (cat.No.26)
warp and weft, light localised wear, some restoration, reduced in length Daniel Walker, “Court and Export,” in HALI, Vol. 95, Nov.1997, pp.97-98
9ft. x 8ft.11in. (275cm. x 274cm.) Steven Cohen, “The Use of Fine Goat Hair for the Production of Luxury
Textiles,” in Jon Thompson, Daniel Shaffer, and Pirjetta Mildh, eds.,
£2,500,000-3,500,000 US$2,900,000-4,000,000 Carpets and Textiles in the Iranian World 1400 – 1700, Oxford and Genoa: The
€2,900,000-4,000,000 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
PROVENANCE:
Berdj Achdjian, Paris 1991 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS:
The Wher Collection, Switzerland, May-December 1991 (A full structural analysis undertaken by Dr. Steven Cohen, is available
Textile Gallery, London, December 1991-October 1992 online)
Private Collection, October 1992, thence by descent Warp: silk, blue, green, red, ivory, U2S, highly depressed
Weft: silk, scarlet x 3
EXHIBITED:
'Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era', Metropolitan Museum of Pile: pashmina, asymmetric knot open to the left
Art, New York, 1997-1998 Knots: approximately 11V x 10H per cm.sq.
Sides and Ends: Nonextant
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