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A MUGHAL RUG

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A MUGHAL RUG
NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

The wine-red field with an overall design of spiralling tendrils linking columns of palmettes, roundels and rosettes ringed by floral wreaths, in an indigo border of arabesques forming an arcade issuing flowering vine and enclosing palmettes and rosettes between ivory cloud-motif and golden yellow meandering flowerhead and rams' horn stripes between minor stripes, even wear, small repairs, edges slightly tattered with some losses to outer guard stripe
Approximately 6ft.5in. x 4ft.4in. (196cm. x 132cm.)

Warp: white cotton, Z5-6S, depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, red-brown cotton Z4S, alternating Z3-5S, one strand red wool Z3S every fourth row, first and third shoot undulating, second more so
Pile: wool, Z2-4, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.5 x V5/cm.
Provenance
Acquired 28 October 1911, as an "Ispahan, XVI Jahrhundert"

Lot Essay

This interesting and rare rug contains a most unusual feature; into the classic red ground palmette and scrolling tendril design most unusual circular roundels have been inserted, of alternating design and colouring but each enclosed by a circular ring motif.

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