Authors Note:I have not personally examined this carpet. Julia Bailey of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston was kind enough to give me these technical details in a telephone conversation. Julia noted that the rug has had a backing applied that makes examination difficult. These details are based on the Sarre and Trenkwald structural analyses from "Old Oriental Carpets" Vienna, 1926 to 1929. At a later point I came in and added differences that came out in Daniel Walkers structural analysis in Flowers Underfoot. I must note that the Walker analysis is tentative, what ever that is supposed to mean. I decided to leave the Sarre and Trenkwald structural analyses and add the Walker differences.4 Note: I recently spoke to Daniel Walker 3. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Dr. Walker was kind enough to confirm my suspicions that this rug must have variation in ply counts in the warps. I neither asked nor did he volunteer any other structural details since he will publish his complete structural analysis later this year (due fall 1997). 1. Stone, Peter. The Oriental Rug Lexicon. (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997). page 9. 2. Bailey, Julia. Personal telephone communication, August 1997 3. Walker, Daniel. Personal telephone communication, August 1997 4. Walker, Daniel. Flowers Underfoot. (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997) p. 163-164 Related Mughal Carpets, Widener Technical Description, The Widener Mughal Animal Carpet For Further Reading: Thanks and best wishes, J. Barry O'Connell Jr. |
