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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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