Lot 70
70
A floorspread fragment of emerald green velvet, woven with a cusped octagonal medallion wreathed with palmettes and elegant scrolling leaves, the borders with an undulating vine of flowers and foliage, the guard borders with similar motifs, woven mainly in red and ivory with metal thread detail, Mughal, probably mid 17th century, (worn)--79cm x 87cm
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A floorspread fragment of emerald green velvet, woven with a cusped octagonal medallion wreathed with palmettes and elegant scrolling leaves, the borders with an undulating vine of flowers and foliage, the guard borders with similar motifs, woven mainly in red and ivory with metal thread detail, Mughal, probably mid 17th century, (worn)--79cm x 87cm

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A floorspread fragment of emerald green velvet, woven with a cusped octagonal medallion wreathed with palmettes and elegant scrolling leaves, the borders with an undulating vine of flowers and foliage, the guard borders with similar motifs, woven mainly in red and ivory with metal thread detail, Mughal, probably mid 17th century, (worn)--79cm x 87cm
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Provenance
Ispanian Collection, Paris, 1930's
Jaburoff Collection, Paris, 1960's
Wher Collection, Lugano, acquired in Paris, 1982
Literature
Pope, Arthur Upham: A Survey of Persian Art, Oxford University Press, 1938, plate 1080. Weit, G: L'Exposition Persane de 1931, Caire, 1933, plate XLV11
Exhibited
Royal Academy Exhibition of Perisan Art, Burlington House, London 1931, no 202
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Lot Essay

The velvet as it was shown in London in 1931, (Pope op.cit.) was later cut in two; the present piece is one of the two halves (the whereabouts of the other half is unknown). Another piece from the original floorspread was exhibitied at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in The Indian Heritage, 1982, no. 224. See page 88 of the exhibition catalogue

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