Lot Essay
A very similar carpet from the same property was sold in these rooms on 3rd May 2001, Lot 129.
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NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
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AN AGRA CARPET
North India, circa 1840
The shaded pale dusty rose field with bold polychrome palmettes issuing angular flowering and leafy vine together with cloudbands in a shaded brown border of scattered minor animal motifs and polychrome palmettes issuing stylised dusty rose and golden yellow acanthus containing small rosettes between a dusty rose palmette and angular vine and brown linked tulip flower stripes, corrosive brown, localised areas of wear
13ft.11in. x 9ft.11in. (425cm. x 302cm.)
North India, circa 1840
The shaded pale dusty rose field with bold polychrome palmettes issuing angular flowering and leafy vine together with cloudbands in a shaded brown border of scattered minor animal motifs and polychrome palmettes issuing stylised dusty rose and golden yellow acanthus containing small rosettes between a dusty rose palmette and angular vine and brown linked tulip flower stripes, corrosive brown, localised areas of wear
13ft.11in. x 9ft.11in. (425cm. x 302cm.)
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