AN INDIAN 'MEDALLION AND ANIMAL' RUG

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AN INDIAN 'MEDALLION AND ANIMAL' RUG
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

The corroded burgundy field centering a saffron yellow octagonal rosette medallion flanked by large medium indigo, green, blue-green and saffron yellow spotted antelope within a cream border with a muted polychrome floral meander vine between saffron yellow floral meander guard stripes, areas of heavy corrosion and wear, slightly ragged ends and sides, minor stains and very minor repairs
Approximately 8ft. x 3ft.10in. (244cm. x 117cm.)

Warp: white cotton Z10S, undulating
Weft: 3 shoots caramel cotton, Z4S, undulating
Pile: wool Z2, at times Z3, asymmetrical open to the left, H2.0 x V1.9/cm.
Sides: main weft flat-woven around two additional warps, additional yellow wool weft Z4S flat-woven around these two warps
Upper end: approx 3cm. flatweave with weft threads and then red wool wefts Z2S

Provenance

Formerly in an Italian Collection (Erdmann, 1950)

Literature

Alte Teppiche des 16.-18.Jahrhunderts der Firma L.Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.120.

Exhibited

Ausstellung Orient-Teppiche, Museum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1950, no.134, p.106 (not illustr.).

Lot Essay

An almost identical example in the Victoria and Albert Museum was illustrated in 1906 (Andrews, F.H.: Journal of Indian Art, 1906, XI, vol.93) and attributed there to Tanjore. Another example was published by Orendi (J. Das Gesamtwissen ber antike und neuere Teppiche des Orients, Vienna, 1930, pl.905), attributed to "Jaipur, circa 1800".

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