Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Carpet Fragment


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Lahore Seventeenth Century

Type A

Type A

Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Carpet Fragment

Warp: 7 strand Z spun and S plied.

Weft: Cotton.

Pile: Wool 2 strands Z spun, S plied

Knot: Persian, open to the left, h. 13 - 15, v. 16 - 17, 208 - 255 square inch

Edges and Ends: not original

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Related Leaves

Detail from the Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Type A Fragment

Please note the similarities in the three color leaves between this and the Widener Animal Carpet particularly in the center stripe of orange.

Detail - Widener Animal Carpet

Detail from Timur Grants An Audience On The Occasion Of His Accession To The Throne Of Balhk, April 9, 1370,

From a Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, Herat 1467 - 68 1. The John W. Garrett Collection, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University. Please note a fairly common representation of Vak-Vak heads on the canopy of a Timurid tent.

Authors note:

I was not able to personally examine this carpet. The technical information is based on a structural analysis done by Dr. Murray Eiland Jr. and contained in his landmark book "Chinese and Exotic Rugs" New York Graphic Society, Boston 1979. Plate 43.

1. Sims, Eleanor. "Painting In Timurid Iran" Asian Art, Spring 1989, pages 62 and 63,

Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Fragment B, The Widener Mughal Animal Carpet,

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