Property from the
BERNHEIMER FAMILY COLLECTION OF CARPETS
A MUGHAL SHRUB RUG
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY LATE 17TH CENTURY
Details
A MUGHAL SHRUB RUG
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY LATE 17TH CENTURY
The wine-red field with a variety of naturalistic floral sprays, in a putty-grey border of alternating palmettes and floral roundels divided by part floral panels between narrow floral meander and plain stripes, areas of wear, corroded grey, repairs in border and minute in field
Warp: white cotton, Z8-9S, depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, grey-brown cotton, first and third undulating, second undulating stronger
Pile: wool, Z3, the light blue sometimes Z4, asymmetrical open to the left, H3.4 x V3.2/cm.
6ft.3in. x 4ft.6in. (191cm. x 137cm.)
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY LATE 17TH CENTURY
The wine-red field with a variety of naturalistic floral sprays, in a putty-grey border of alternating palmettes and floral roundels divided by part floral panels between narrow floral meander and plain stripes, areas of wear, corroded grey, repairs in border and minute in field
Warp: white cotton, Z8-9S, depressed, slightly undulating
Weft: 3 shoots, grey-brown cotton, first and third undulating, second undulating stronger
Pile: wool, Z3, the light blue sometimes Z4, asymmetrical open to the left, H3.4 x V3.2/cm.
6ft.3in. x 4ft.6in. (191cm. x 137cm.)
Provenance
Acquired 9 August 1937 as an "ind. Teppich"
Literature
Alte Teppiche des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts der Firma L.Bernheimer, Munich, 1959, pl.109.