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Mughal carpet fragment with scrolling vines and blossoms
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Description
No other surviving examples are known from this carpet. Its design and execution relate to several larger carpet fragments in the Textile Museum, Washington, DC, and the collection of Howard Hodgkin.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Pakistan › Punjab province › Punjab plains › Lahore (probable place of creation)
- Date
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c. 1610
Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
- Material and technique
- wool (pile), pink cotton (weft), and undyed cotton (warp)
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 43.5 cm max. (length x width)
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dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Neil Kreitman Foundation, in memory of Simon Digby, 2011.
- Accession no.
- EA2011.28
Location
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- currently in research collection
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