AN AGRA CARPET

NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1890

Details

The ivory field with a light tracery lattice, enclosing paired forest-green medallions with similar spandrels, the ivory border with pink flowerheads on a thin green vine, between tomato-red minor stripes with a thin floral meander, the chocolate-brown outer guard stripe with repeated stylised flowerheads, minor localised restorations, overall very good condition
10ft.3in. x 8ft.11in. (313cm. x 272cm.)
Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 7 October 2014, lot 116.
Lot Essay

The design of the present carpet is one that was adapted by the Indian weavers to be easily duplicated to form an enlarged or reduced pattern. A carpet with a single medallion was sold Sotheby's New York, 24 September 1991, lot 260, while a carpet of triplicate formation but devoid of the small lozenge medallion sold in the same Sotheby's sale, lot 281. A carpet displaying the same double niche medallion but scaled considerably smaller and repeated six times, sold in these Rooms, 25 June 2000, lot 216.