Lot Essay
This fragment is an example of the quality and sophistication, typical of the early 17th century Mughal Indian carpets, depicting exquisitely drawn and easily identifiable multi-directional flowering plants. In this example, the plants are enclosed in an elaborate series of finely drawn linked cartouches of different sizes forming an overall lattice. An identical lattice can also been seen on the border of a Mughal miniature, dating from around 1635. See Okada, A:, Imperial Mughal Painters, Indian Miniatures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Paris, 1992, pl.235, p.199.