Lot Essay
For a discussion of this group please see the introductory chapter in The Bernheimer Family Collection of Carpets, Christie's London, 14 February 1996, pages 15-16.
INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
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AN 'INDO-ISFAHAN' RUG
INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
The raspberry-red field with a counterposed design of delicate scrolling meandering arabesque and leafy vine issuing polychrome palmettes together with split palmettes and cloudband-motifs, in an indigo border of large palmettes divided by similar smaller palmettes linked by leafy vine between mustard floral meander and barber-pole stripes, areas of restoration, minute holes, field and border of very low pile, selvages replaced, partial loss at each end, areas of tinting
6ft.8in. x 4ft.8in. (204cm. x 142cm.)
INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
The raspberry-red field with a counterposed design of delicate scrolling meandering arabesque and leafy vine issuing polychrome palmettes together with split palmettes and cloudband-motifs, in an indigo border of large palmettes divided by similar smaller palmettes linked by leafy vine between mustard floral meander and barber-pole stripes, areas of restoration, minute holes, field and border of very low pile, selvages replaced, partial loss at each end, areas of tinting
6ft.8in. x 4ft.8in. (204cm. x 142cm.)