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 | Fragment of an Animal Carpet - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- late 16th century
- Geography:
- Northern India
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Rug: L. 30 11/16 in. (78 cm) W. 21 7/16 in. (54.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1971
- Accession Number:
- 1971.263.3
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 463 |
 | Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- late 16th–early 17th century
- Geography:
- present-day Pakistan, Lahore
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Rug: L. 328 in. (833.1 cm) W. 108 in. (274.3 cm) Wt. 132 lbs. (59.9 kg) Storage Tube: L. 132 in. (335.3 cm) Diam. 9 in. (22.9 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Accession Number:
- 17.190.858
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 463 This carpet, with its pictorial depiction of trees, birds, and animals, is conceived like a textile with a repeat design in which each unit reverses the direction of the preceding one. The ibexes, Chinese mythological beasts called qilins, and animals in combat, are derived from Safavid Persian art, as is the border design of cartouches and star-shaped medallions with cloud bands. The palm tree, however, is a very Indian feature, as is the generally naturalistic drawing of the flora and fauna and the bright red color of the field. The relationship to Persian carpet design dates this example to the early Mughal period, soon after the first carpet workshops were established by the emperor Akbar in Lahore, Agra, and Fatehpur Sikri. |
 | Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Wool
- Dimensions:
- H: 128 3/4 in. .(327 cm) W: 90 3/4 in. (230.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
- Accession Number:
- 41.190.264
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 | Carpet - Date:
- mid-17th century
- Geography:
- Pakistan, Lahore
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Rug: H. 363 in. (922 cm) W. 134 in. (340.4 cm) Wt. 186 lbs. (84.4 kg) Storage Tube: H. 156 in. (396.2 cm) Diam. 11 in. (27.9 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Accession Number:
- 17.190.857
- Provenance
Lady Sackville, Knole Park, Kent , England; J. Pierpont Morgan , New York (until 1917)
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 | Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- ca. 1650
- Geography:
- Northern India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- L. 163 3/4 in. (415.9 cm) W. 66 in. (167.6 cm) Diam. of tube 10 in. (25.4 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.725
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 463 The finest Indian carpets were made with a pile of pashmina wool and a foundation of silk, which allowed for hundreds of knots to be tied per square inch. Increasing the suppleness and softness of the carpet, the greater number of knots also increased the subtlety of the patterns that could be made on the carpet; here, a scrolling vine from which bloom palmettes, poppies, irises and serrated lancet leaves. Pashmina wool, the undercoat of the Himalayan mountain goat, was obtained from Kashmir (in northern India) and from western Tibet, from which imports were strictly regulated. |
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 | Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- ca. 1650
- Geography:
- India or present-day Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft); wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Rug: H. 170 in. (431.8 cm) W. 81 3/4 in. (207.6 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest and Rogers Fund, 1970
- Accession Number:
- 1970.321
- Provenance
Maharaja of Jaipur , India (1656–at least 1929); Hagop Kevorkian , New York (until d. 1962; estate sale,Sotheby's, London, December 11, 1970, lot 8, to MMA)
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 | Fragments of a Carpet - Object Name:
- Fragments
- Date:
- mid-17th century
- Geography:
- Northern India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: H. 34 in. (86.4 cm) W. 122 in. (309.9 cm) Mount: H. 40 in. (101.6 cm) W. 165 1/4 in. (419.7 cm) D. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Weight: 143 lbs (64.9 kg)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.719
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 | Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern - Object Name:
- Fragments
- Reign:
- Shah Jahan (1628–58)
- Date:
- ca. 1650
- Geography:
- India or present-day Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 155 3/4 in. (395.6 cm) W. 55 1/4 in. (140.3 cm) Mount: L. 66 in. (167.6 cm) W. 168 in. (426.7 cm) D. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Weight: 263 lbs (119.3 kg)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.723
- This carpet represents the highest level of production—imperial grade—made with an extremely fine weave and costly materials. It looks and feels like velvet, but the pile is actually pashmina wool, made from the fleece of Himalayan mountain goats. Its decorative style, with its floral forms, is typical of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s taste, seen also in the architectural ornament and manuscript illumination produced during his reign. These fragments constitute about one quarter of the original carpet, which was over twenty-three feet long, an enormous size for a carpet of this quality.
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 | Fragments of a Trellis Pattern Carpet - Object Name:
- Fragments
- Date:
- ca. 1650
- Geography:
- Northern India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: H. 48 in. (121.9 cm) W. 119 in. (302.3 cm) Mount: H. 59 in. (149.9 cm) W. 164 1/8 in. (416.9 cm) D. 3 in. (7.6 cm) Weight: 288 lbs (130.6 kg)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.712
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 | Pashmina Carpet Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- first half 17th century
- Geography:
- Northern India
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm) W. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Rogers Fund, 1908
- Accession Number:
- 08.109.20
- Provenance
[ Art market , India, 1880s]; [ Dikran G. Kelekian , New York, until 1908; sold to MMA]
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 | Carpet, fragment - Object Name:
- Carpet, fragment
- Date:
- 16th century
- Geography:
- Northern India
- Medium:
- Wool; asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- L. 11 1/2 in. x W. 9 1/2 in.
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift from the Collection of Hillary Black Dumas and Dr. D. Gilbert Dumas, 2009
- Accession Number:
- 2009.458.16
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 | Fragment of a Carpet with Niche and Flower Design - Object Name:
- Carpet, fragment
- Date:
- 1630–40
- Geography:
- India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 6 in. (15.2 cm) W. 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm) Mount: L. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) W. 30 5/8 in. (77.8 cm) D. 1 in. (2.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.722
- This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 463
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 | Fragments - Object Name:
- Fragments
- Date:
- 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk (warp and weft), wool (pashmina) pile
- Dimensions:
- H. 59 1/2 in. (151.1 cm) W: 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.713
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- third quarter 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 29 x W. 3.25 in. (73.7 x 8 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.5
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- third quarter 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 60.5 x W. 15 in. (153.6 x 38 cm) Mount: H. 93 1/2 in. W. 27 in. D. 1 1/4 in. Wt. 51 lbs. (23.1 kg) Mount houses all components, a-d
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.4a
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- third quarter 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 42 in. (106.7 cm) W. 6 in. (15.2 cm) Wt. 51 in. (23.1 kg) Mount houses all components, a-d
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.4c
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- third quarter 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 15 in. (38 cm) W. 22.5 in. (57.2 cm) Wt. 51 lbs. (23.1 cm) Mount houses all components, a-d
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.4b
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- third quarter 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 40 in. (101.6 cm) W. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) Wt. 51 lbs. (23.1 kg) Mount houses all components, a-d
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.4d
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- second half 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Cotton, wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 64.5 in. (163.1 cm) W. 9.25 in. (23.2 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983
- Accession Number:
- 1983.494.6
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 | Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- 19th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- H: 4 3/4in. (12.1 cm) L: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Rogers Fund, 1923
- Accession Number:
- 23.211.21
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 | Fragment of a Floorspread - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- late 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Cotton
- Dimensions:
- Rug: L. 66 3/4 in. (169.5 cm) W. 142 in. (360.7 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1982
- Accession Number:
- 1982.239a
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Carpet with Niche and Flower Design - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- mid-17th century
- Geography:
- India or Pakistan, Kashmir or Lahore
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 61 in. (154.9 cm) W. 40 1/2 in. (102.8 cm) Mount: L. 66 5/8 in. (169.2 cm) W. 45 in. (114.3 cm) D. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Wt. 107 lbs. (48.5 kg)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973
- Accession Number:
- 1974.149.2
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 463 This weaving is part of a group that uses the most popular motif of the emperor Shah Jahan’s reign: the single flowering plant, in this case a poppy, set within a niche. The similarity of their design to tent panels with niches and to hangings shown in royal audience scenes suggests that they were hung vertically rather than being placed on the floor. |
 | Pashmina Carpet with Gateway-and-Millefleur Pattern - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- second half 18th century
- Geography:
- Northern India, Kashmir
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Rug: H. 74 3/16 in. (188.5 cm) W. 47 11/16 in. (121.2 cm) Mount: H. 79 1/8 in. (201 cm) W. 51 1/4 in. (130.2 cm) D. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1970
- Accession Number:
- 1970.302.7
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Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 17th–19th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 145 in. (368.3 cm) W. 102 in. (259.1 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.714
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Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Wool
- Dimensions:
- L. 103 x W. 101 in. (261.6 x 256.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of F. H. Hirschland, 1944
- Accession Number:
- 44.70
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Floor Cover- Date:
- 18th century (?)
- Culture:
- Indian
- Dimensions:
- 154 3/4 x 151 3/4 in. (393.1 x 385.4cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles
- Credit Line:
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.2455
- Accession Number:
- 1975.1.2455
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Floor Cover- Date:
- 18th century (?)
- Culture:
- Indo-Persian
- Dimensions:
- 212 x 153 in. (538.5 x 388.6cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles
- Credit Line:
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.2463
- Accession Number:
- 1975.1.2463
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Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- late 18th–early 19th century
- Geography:
- India, probably Kashmir
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Max. H: 99 3/4 in. (251.5 cm); Min. H: 97 3/4 in. (248.3 cm) Max. W: 53 1/2 in. (135.9 cm); Min. W: 51 in. (129.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1967
- Accession Number:
- 67.267
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Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 17th century
- Geography:
- India, probably Deccan
- Medium:
- Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Max. H: 79 in. (200.7 cm) Max: W: 54 3/4 in. (139.1 cm); Min. W: 53 1/2 in. (135.9 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
- Accession Number:
- 22.100.73
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Fragment - Object Name:
- Fragment
- Date:
- mid-17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk and metal yarns; cut voided velvet
- Dimensions:
- H: 46 7/8 in. (119 cm) W: 27 9/16 in. (70 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Woven
- Credit Line:
- The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1991
- Accession Number:
- 1991.347.3a
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 | Velvet and Silk Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Silk, metal-wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded
- Dimensions:
- Rug: L. 183 1/2 in. (466.1 cm) W. 103 in. (263.5 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1927
- Accession Number:
- 27.115
- For special occasions, Mughal palaces and pavilions were spread with silk hangings, carpets, and embroidered velvets. On one New Year’s Day, for instance, the emperor Jahangir mentioned visiting his vizier and brother-in-law Asaf Khan, who had covered the road from the palace with velvets woven with gold and gold brocade. This sumptuous carpet may have been used for such an occasion. Its design is reminiscent of Iranian textiles, but ink inscriptions in Gujarati script on its selvages indicate that the carpet was woven in that state, which was well known for the production of silks, velvets, and cottons.
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| Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- 18th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Wool
- Dimensions:
- Rug: L. 147 in. (373.4 cm) W. 97 in. (246.4 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
- Accession Number:
- 41.190.271
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 | Carpet - Object Name:
- Carpet
- Date:
- second half 17th century
- Geography:
- India
- Medium:
- Wool (pile) Cotton (warp and weft); asymmetrically knotted pile
- Dimensions:
- Textile: L. 122 in. (309.9 cm) W. 61 1/2 in. (156.2 cm)
- Classification:
- Textiles-Rugs
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Accession Number:
- 14.40.717
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