silk, cut and voided velvet, with continuous floats of flat metal thread, of rectangular form depicting alternating rows of seminaturalistic individual roses and lilies, on wooden stretcher
140.1 x 36.2 cm.; 148.3 x 42 cm. (including stretcher)

Footnotes

Exhibited
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library London, 9 November 2012-2 April 2013

There is a comparable Mughal velvet panel, with a similar pattern of flowers, in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. See, M.D. Ekhtiar et al, eds., Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, 2011, pp.370-71, no.260. This panel is made of two fragments which fit together perfectly - the upper fragment from the dealer, Joseph Brummer, in 1930 (inv.no. 30.18), and subsequently the lower fragment in 1991 from the Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection (inv.no. 1991.347.2). An additional fragment of the same fabric is in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C., acquired from Nasli Heeramaneck in 1949 (inv.no. OC6.150).

For a variation of the type in the Chester Beatty Library bearing an inventory inscription dated to February 1648 see Ellen S. Smart, 'A Preliminary Report on a Group of Important Mughal Textiles', Textile Museum Journal 25, 1986, p. 19, fig. 23.

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A Mughal cut and voided velvet Panel India, mid 17th Century

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