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Description:
Antique Amritsar, North India, circa 1900
A classic Indo-Persian design of allover arabesques with sickle palmettes in soft golds and burgundy unfolds gracefully across the abrashed green and cocoa ground of this sumptuous antique Amtritsar. In contrast to the grand sweeping scale of the field, the borders are narrow and understated, focusing all attention on the rich design at the center. The drawing is fluid and precise in the classic tradition of Persian and Indian carpets.
Amritsar carpets are extremely distinctive within the production of Indian carpets. Unlike the carpets of Agra, those produced in Amritsar, in the far north of India near Kashmir, do not represent a continuous production back to Mugal times. They seem to have resulted from a new nineteenth-century initiative under British rule. As such the Amritsar rug weavers were free to approach carpet design more on the basis of western needs than on their own traditions, so their carpets were from the outset well adapted to western decorative use. While their designs responded to contemporary Persian production, Amritsar rugs were generally made with a softer more earthy palette, often with a tendency to burgundy or aubergine tones. To this day they remain a superior decorative carpet by virtue of their flexible formal repertoire and coloration.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 42138 |
| Condition:
Very good. |
Year:
Circa 1900
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| Country:
INDIA |
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| Height:
14.8 in. (37.59 cm) |
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Width: 9 in. (22.86 cm)
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| Title:
ANTIQUE AMRITSAR CARPET/RUG BY NAZMIYAL.COM |
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