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Lahore Seventeenth or Eighteenth
Century
Size 2.31 m (7’7") x w. 1.01 m
(3’4")
Warp: cotton 6 z-yarns s plied alternate warp
very depressed. Carpets With
High Ply Count Cotton Warps
Weft: cotton ivory 2 z yarns, 3 shoots.
Pile: wool 2 and 3 z yarns, Asymmetrical knot
open on the left 13.5 horizontal. x 18 vertical
per inch 243 per square inch
Color – six, dark blue, light blue, blue
green, barn red, rose, ivory.
Condition: extensive re-knotting, some
fugitive dyes. Left border is mostly original but
reduced on all four sides.
Gift of James F. Ballard, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City.
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This fragment is from a much larger carpet and two
other similar fragments have been mentioned of which I
have located one. The Kendrick & Tattersall Prayer
Saph (Kendrick & Tattersall plate 30B 1.).
This fragment is most often referred to as a Persian
Multi-Niche Prayer Carpet.
It is noted in the book "Prayer Rugs" that
Charles Grant Ellis firmly attributed this Saph to Mughal
India 2. Ellis also attributes the
Kendrick and Tattersall Saph as Mughal 3.
and places it in the late seventeen or early eighteenth
century when he discusses 3. it in
his commentary of Martin's "A History Of Oriental
Carpets Before 1800".
Authors Note:
I have not had a chance to personally examine this
Saph and I am basing this on the structural information
in "Prayer Rugs" by Louise Mackie et al,
Textile Museum, Washington DC, 1974.
1. Kendrick, A. F. and Tattersall, C. E. C. Hand
Woven Carpets. (1922 rpt. New York, Dover
Publications, 1973) p. 40.
2. Mackie, Louise et al. Prayer Rugs.
Washington DC, Textile Museum, 1974. p. 86.
3. F. R. Martin, "." Oriental Rug Review
Vol. VI, No. 3 June 1986 p. 17/65a.
Carpets With High
Ply Count Cotton Warps, The
Widener Mughal Animal Carpet
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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