A SILK KASHGAR CARPET FRAGMENT

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A SILK KASHGAR CARPET FRAGMENT
EAST TURKESTAN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

The abrashed apricot to walnut brown field with a muted polychrome stylized floral lattice overall within a deep indigo stylized floral trellis border, areas of wear, repaired split, slightly tattered edges
Approximately 5ft.8in. x 2ft.11in. (173cm. x 89cm.)

Warp: ivory or light blue cotton, Z4S, considerably depressed, hardly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots ivory or pink cotton, Z3S, first and third slightly undulating, second more so
Pile: silk, Z2-3S, asymmetrical open to the left, H4.7 x V3.7/cm.
Sides: red silk Z4S irregularly wound around 1 or 2 additional warps, main weft sometimes flat-woven around the additional warps and sometimes between these warps and the outermost knotted warp, travelling over the flat-woven wefts

Provenance

Acquired 9 August 1937 as a "Kansu Fragment"

Lot Essay

This fragment is related to the two fragments offered in this collection as lot 95 and 96. Here, the Mughal influence is not as pronounced as it is in the other two fragments, perhaps indicating a slightly later date. A carpet with a similar angular border to this fragment is illustrated by Hans Bidder (see, Bidder, Hans: Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, Tbingen, 1964, fig. 29).

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