NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1890

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AN AGRA CARPET
NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1890
The shaded indigo field of Safavid Persian design with dense angular leafy palmette vine around a central ivory roundel containing a cusped angular flowerhead containing rust-red petals depicting birds and floral sprays around a square indigo centre, the light camel cusped spandrels containing split palmettes and arabesques, in an ivory border with twisted vine surrounding cusped burgundy and indigo cartouche panels between ivory and camel floral meander stripes, excellent pile throughout, minor touches of repair in the outer stripe at one side, selvages rebound, overall excellent condition
19ft. x 11ft.9in. (579cm. x 357cm.)

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拍品專文

The design of this carpet derives from a sixteenth century Persian carpet found today in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, (Erdmann, Kurt: Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets, London, 1970, pl.205, p.164, p.230). The length of the field in the present example, however, has been extended at either end which has diminished the prominence of the central roundel. Although highly stylised today, the poetic inscription cartouches on the original carpet once partly translated as;
The narcissus has looked up towards the stars, and to the reveller the night is as light as the morning,