Warp: Cotton Z8S alternate warps strongly depressed, natural white. High Ply Count Cotton Warps Weft: Cotton, 3Z (white) then one strand of unspun silk (red), the Red Silk alternating between two rows of white cotton (three shoots: first and third rigid cotton and the second sinuous Red Silk). Pile: Wool, asymmetrical knot open to the left. Density 13 - 19 Horizontal, 14 - 19 vertical Sides: Not original. Ends: Not original. Colors: deep Wedgwood blue, teal blue, teal green, pale raspberry, celery, camel, ecru, sage. These two fragments are from the border of the Mughal carpet sold as lot 203, John C., Edelmann Galleries, October 25 1980; also illustrated in Hali vol. 4. No. 3, "The Art Of The Mughal; carpet,' the Michaelian Flower carpet, p. 234, now in the al-Sabah collection in the Kuwait National Museum, see Jenkins, Marilyn, Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, Sotheby's, London, 1983, plate 144." (quoted from catalogue 1.) 1. Sotheby's, Fine Oriental and European carpets, New York Sat. June 3, 1989 catalogue. Mughal and Related Carpets, The Widener Mughal Animal Carpet For Further Reading: Thanks and best wishes, J. Barry O'Connell Jr. |
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