NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1900

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AN AGRA RUG
North India, circa 1900
Of "small silk Kashan" design, the deep burgundy field with flowering vine surrounding animal-combat groups around a sage-green medallion with pendants containing floral palmettes and flowering vine and paired simurghs, the lemon-yellow spandrels similar, in a deep green border of palmettes, simurghs and flowering vine between inner ivory flowerhead and cloudband and outer burgundy meandering leaf and palmette stripes, plain outer burgundy stripe
7ft.6in. x 5ft.11in. (228cm. x 180cm.)

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Lot Essay

The design of this carpet is a direct copy of the small silk Kashan carpet now in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
(Persian Art, Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, 1972, pl.26.)

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