AN AGRA CARPET
NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of Safavid 'silk Kashan' design, localised areas of wear with associated scattered repiling and minor repairs, corroded black and red
14ft.5in. x 11ft.7in. (444cm. x 358cm.)
The design of this carpet derives from a sixteenth century silk Kashan rug, central Persia, in the Gulbenkian Collection , Lisbon, (Kurt Erdmann, Oriental Carpets, Germany, 1960, fig. 69.