Lot n° 276
Estimation :
5000 - 7000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 28 160EUR
Beautiful embroidered summer carpet with... - Lot 276 - Ader
Beautiful embroidered summer carpet with floral medallion design, India, probably Deccan, 18th
centuryColoured
silk
and cotton, originally embroidered with silver-covered threads, the central mandorla medallion decorated with carnations, the background densely worked with floral scrolls, four spandrels repeating the central mandorla, the borders decorated with a waving floral scroll, the reverse side applied with an 18th century red silk woven with a motif of flowers in metal threads, wear, corrosion of black threads, traces of silver threads.
204 x 130 cm
Provenance:
Former Henry-René d'Allemagne collection.
This type of embroidered carpet, known as a "medallion carpet", draws its decoration from the decorative repertoire favoured by the Mughal court in northern India. It is likely, however, that it was made in the Deccan region of central India, to which many similar carpets have recently been attributed. See for example two carpets in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 784-1864 and IM.2-1912, both dated to the mid-eighteenth century; an example in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (995.790) and an example in the Textiles Museum, Toronto (T94.0829). The Toronto example retains the early attribution to Gujarat, specifically the port of Surat (Yumiko Kamada, "The Attribution and Circulation of Flowering Tree and Medallion Design Deccani Embroideries," in Haidar and Sardar (ed.), Sultans of the South, Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687, New York, 2011, pp.132-47). A fine similar example that has retained its silver threads is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (05.25.2). For examples sold at public sale, see Christie's, London, 24 October 2019, lot 154 and 9 October 2014, lot 154.
A fine embroidered summer carpet, India, probably Deccan, 18th century
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue