Lot Essay
An even larger Agra carpet of exactly the same Bidjar design, measuring 39ft.10in. x 22ft.8in. (1215 x 692cm.), was offered in these Rooms 13 April 1998, lot 19.
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NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1890
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A LARGE AGRA KELLEH
North India, circa 1890
The plain golden yellow field around a burgundy lozenge medallion containing four bold palmettes and delicate floral tendrils, a string of palmettes above and below, the ivory spandrels containing angular floral vine, in a burgundy palmette and angular vine border between reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain golden yellow outer stripe, scattered areas of repiling particularly in the corroded burgundy, localised wear mainly in the border, small split in central medallion, outer stripe missing at both ends
24ft.5in. x 9ft.10in. (743cm. x 299cm.)
North India, circa 1890
The plain golden yellow field around a burgundy lozenge medallion containing four bold palmettes and delicate floral tendrils, a string of palmettes above and below, the ivory spandrels containing angular floral vine, in a burgundy palmette and angular vine border between reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain golden yellow outer stripe, scattered areas of repiling particularly in the corroded burgundy, localised wear mainly in the border, small split in central medallion, outer stripe missing at both ends
24ft.5in. x 9ft.10in. (743cm. x 299cm.)
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