Lot Essay
In contrast to lots 404 and 405 in this sale, this carpet is certainly representative of the Indian descendants of the Persian originals of this design. The colours are slightly different; in particular the yellow has more of a mustard quality to it. The drawing is also different; the palmettes appearing to float more in space without the clearly defined tendrils of the other two. This is partly due to another Indian feature, that of drawing details, including some of the tendrils, in pink on the red ground. This feature can be seen on a number of Mughal carpets, such as the Girdler's carpet (Irwin, J.: The Girdler's Carpet, small pamphlet, London, 1962) commissioned from Lahore in 1634.