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Lot Essay
Structural Analysis:
Warps: ivory cotton, alternates depressed
Wefts: ivory cotton, red silk
Knots: asymmetric knot, open to the left, approx. 8V x 5H per cm. sq.
Pile: knotted pile, sheep's wool
Sides and Ends: nonextant
The lozenge-shaped lattice of the present fragment, formed of gently undulating ivory vines, closely relates to a carpet gifted by James D. Burns to the Textile Museum, Washington D.C. (inv. no.1994.12.1), and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.IS. 244-1964). Both those examples, as well as the present fragment, have a cotton warp structure with red silk and natural cotton wefts. A carpet displaying a more angular lozenge lattice formed of small interlocking hooked buds, is seen on a fragment attributed to Hyderabad, Deccan, late 17th or early 18th century, in Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait Museum of Islamic Art (inv. no.LNS 20R) (Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot, New York, 1997, fig.143). Related undulating leafy vine lattices, which incorporate vases are seen on several carpet fragments in the collection of the Maharaja of Jaipur (nos.177,179, 183), and the V&A (inv. no.67-1930).
A shorter and narrower Mughal 'lattice' carpet fragment, formerly in the collection of the late British Artist, Howard Hodgkin, recently sold in Sotheby's, London, 29 October 2025, lot 197. That fragment was almost certainly once joined to the present fragment, as it shares not only the same design, but even part of the same floral spray of ivory carnations. Both fragments share a similarly well-preserved pile and rich saturation of colour.
For further discussion of this group of carpets see the previous lot in the present sale and Daniel Walker, (Flowers Underfoot, New York, 1997, pp.105-7).
Warps: ivory cotton, alternates depressed
Wefts: ivory cotton, red silk
Knots: asymmetric knot, open to the left, approx. 8V x 5H per cm. sq.
Pile: knotted pile, sheep's wool
Sides and Ends: nonextant
The lozenge-shaped lattice of the present fragment, formed of gently undulating ivory vines, closely relates to a carpet gifted by James D. Burns to the Textile Museum, Washington D.C. (inv. no.1994.12.1), and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.IS. 244-1964). Both those examples, as well as the present fragment, have a cotton warp structure with red silk and natural cotton wefts. A carpet displaying a more angular lozenge lattice formed of small interlocking hooked buds, is seen on a fragment attributed to Hyderabad, Deccan, late 17th or early 18th century, in Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait Museum of Islamic Art (inv. no.LNS 20R) (Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot, New York, 1997, fig.143). Related undulating leafy vine lattices, which incorporate vases are seen on several carpet fragments in the collection of the Maharaja of Jaipur (nos.177,179, 183), and the V&A (inv. no.67-1930).
A shorter and narrower Mughal 'lattice' carpet fragment, formerly in the collection of the late British Artist, Howard Hodgkin, recently sold in Sotheby's, London, 29 October 2025, lot 197. That fragment was almost certainly once joined to the present fragment, as it shares not only the same design, but even part of the same floral spray of ivory carnations. Both fragments share a similarly well-preserved pile and rich saturation of colour.
For further discussion of this group of carpets see the previous lot in the present sale and Daniel Walker, (Flowers Underfoot, New York, 1997, pp.105-7).