Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Carpet Fragment


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Lahore Seventeenth Century

Type B

Type B 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

While the majority of animals in this group of carpets are very unusual we do see at least one animal bearing a relationship to animals we see it the rest of the high ply count carpets.

A Related Animal

Detail from the Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Fragment

Please note the similarities in the collared cheetah.

Detail - Getty Mughal Animal Rug

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.

Mughal Red Ground Grotesque Type A, The Widener Mughal Animal Carpet

For Further Reading:

Persian Rugs and Carpet

Turkish Rugs

Turkmen Rugs

JBOC's Notes on the Bible

Southwest Asia Time Line

Caucasian Rugs

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

Persian Rugs the O'Connell Guides

Tabriz Rugs