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A LARGE VELVET PANEL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY Woven in two panels, the rust-red ground with alternating rows of large palmettes issuing scrolling vine and small palmettes, plain burgundy outer border, floral woven minor stripes, backed 81 x 67?in. (205.5 x 172cm.) including border
The production of fine velvet textiles was introduced into Mughal India from Safavid Iran, whose velvet-making was renowned for its beauty. It is thought that Persian craftsmen skilled in velvet weaving were present in Akbar's workshops, where the Persian influence gradually gave way to more characteristically Mughal designs. The shape of the alternating floral palmettes in our textile emulates a magnificent seventeenth century Mughal velvet in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, (inv. no. 1422) as well as the borders of a striking crimson velvet sold in these Rooms, 2 May 2019, lot 228. For a further eighteenth century velvet with an almost identically arranged field to the present lot see Herrmann, 1991, p. 146, no. 69.