Carpet
ca. 1650 (made)
| Place of origin |
Portion of a darbar carpet woven in coloured woollen pile upon white cotton warps, and crossed by a triple weft made of one red silk shoot between two red cotton shoots. The borders are missing, and the pattern of the field is composed of horizontal rows of Ming vases containing plants bearing poppies, irises, roses, tulips and other flowers on a kermes-red ground within strapwork lobed compartments in white and green. The white cotton 8-ply warps number 31 to the inch. The triple weft of one silk thread between two salmon-coloured two-fold threads of cotton runs between the rows of Persian knots, which number about 260 to the square inch. The colours are red, white, blue, crimson, ochre, yellow and purple.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Woollen pile, cotton and silk |
| Brief description | Portion of a darbar carpet woven in woollen pile, cotton and silk, Lahore, ca. 1650. |
| Physical description | Portion of a darbar carpet woven in coloured woollen pile upon white cotton warps, and crossed by a triple weft made of one red silk shoot between two red cotton shoots. The borders are missing, and the pattern of the field is composed of horizontal rows of Ming vases containing plants bearing poppies, irises, roses, tulips and other flowers on a kermes-red ground within strapwork lobed compartments in white and green. The white cotton 8-ply warps number 31 to the inch. The triple weft of one silk thread between two salmon-coloured two-fold threads of cotton runs between the rows of Persian knots, which number about 260 to the square inch. The colours are red, white, blue, crimson, ochre, yellow and purple. |
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| Object history | Bought from Imre Schwaiger in 1930 for £1,200. The accession information states: 'The carpet was woven to the order of Raja Jai Singh I ("The Mirza Raja") of Amber, Rajputana (1625-1667) for an apartment in his Palace at Amber, probably the Shesh Mahal in the Jai Mandir'. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Stronge, S. (Ed.) "The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms", V&A, 1999
p. 79, Pl. 85 and p. 215, Cat. 49
Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot. Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, fig. 107, p. 109. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.67-1930 |
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| Record created | January 2, 2003 |
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