AN AMRITZAR CARPET

INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN AMRITZAR CARPET
India, late 19th Century
The shaded light-blue field with diagonal rows of pine cone boteh in a blackcurrant-red meandering boteh vine border between similar black floral mander and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, light staining, some wear
204in. x 157in. (518cm. x 299cm.)

Provenance

Edward Levy Lawson, 1st Lord Burnham (d.1916), Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire
Harry Lawson Webster, 1st Viscount Burnham (d.1933), Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire
Thence by descent

Lot Essay

A group of identical carpets can be found in the collection of the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire including a massive example in the Winter dining-room (illustrated in Lord David Cecil Hatfield House, London, 2nd ed. 1984, p. 23).

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