拍品 488
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AN ANTIQUE AGRA CARPET of Belouch design, the indigo field scattered with small floral motifs around five columns of a variety of floral panels, medallions and small prayer panels, in a sang-de-boeuf border of crab-rosettes enclosing flowerheads between similar angular meander, reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain stripes, a short kilim strip at each end (corroded black, otherwise excellent condition)

细节
AN ANTIQUE AGRA CARPET of Belouch design, the indigo field scattered with small floral motifs around five columns of a variety of floral panels, medallions and small prayer panels, in a sang-de-boeuf border of crab-rosettes enclosing flowerheads between similar angular meander, reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain stripes, a short kilim strip at each end (corroded black, otherwise excellent condition)
13ft.8in. x 9ft. (416cm. x 274cm.)

拍品专文

Two further carpets with this rare Agra design are published in Bennett, I.: Jail Birds, an exhibition of 19th century Indian Carpets, Exhibition by Kennedy Carpets, London 1987, no.23 and 24. In the catalogue it is suggested that the design was woven in Yeraoda Jail, Poona. The quality here is far better than normally encountered in jail carpets; H.J.R.Twigg noted of Yeraoda in 1907 'the carpets amde in this prison are beyond all comparison better than those of any other jail in this [the Bombay] presidency (A Monograph on the Art and Practise of Carpet Making in the Bombay Presidency, Bombay, 1907). Only about 25 carpets were made each year in this jail.