A MUGHAL ANIMAL CARPET BORDER

NORTH INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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A MUGHAL ANIMAL CARPET BORDER
NORTH INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
The indigo field with leaping and running animals including a lion and a deer surrounded by a variety of leafy floral sprays, the brick-red stripe below containing a variety of animals alternating with floral motifs, inner indigo minor angular vine and plain stripe, even wear and old repairs, framed and backed a canvass
4ft.2in. x 1ft.8in. (127cm. x 50cm.)

Literature

Bernehimer, Otto: Alte Teppiche des 16-18. Jahrhunderts de Firma L. Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.105.

Lot Essay

A similar example from the same carpet was sold in these rooms Bernheimer Family Collection of Carpets, 14 February, 1996, Lot 44. The note to that lot mentions that another fragment from the same border is in the Keir Collection (Robinson, B.W. et. al.: Islamic Art in the Keir Collection, London 1988, ill.T32, pp.84).

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