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Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

Walker, Daniel

1997

220 pages

145 illustrations

9 x 12 in

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the Exhibition
Introduction
Map: India in the Seventeenth Century

1. India During the Mughal Era

2. International Commerce

3. Technical Characteristics

4. The Carpets

The Persian Style
Fantastic-Animal Pattern
Pictorial Designs
Scrolling-Vine-and-Animal Pattern
Scrolling-Vine-and-Blossom Pattern
Fine-Weave Type
The Flower Style
Single-Flower Design
Rows of Flowers or Trees
Lattice-and-Flower Pattern
Lattice-and-Blossom Pattern
Attribution and Provenance
Later Carpet Types
Durbar (Audience) Type
Millefleur
Multiple-Niche Prayer Type (Saph)
The Kyoto Group
Silks

Appendix 1

Microscopic Analysis of Animal Fibers Found in Classical Indian and Persian Carpets
Martin N. Youngberg

Appendix 2A

Natural Dyes in the Near and Middle East and India
Harald Böhmer

Appendix 2B

Dye Analysis of Classical Indian and Persian Carpets
Recep Karadag, Nevin Enez, and Harald Böhmer

Checklist of the Exhibition
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits

Met Art in Publication

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, Chitarman Indian, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper — "Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Chitarman
recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Fragment of a Carpet with Niche and Flower Design, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Fragment of a Carpet with Niche and Flower Design
1630–40

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, Amir Khusrau Dihlavi Indian, Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper<br/>Margins: Gold on dyed paper — "A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Miskin
1597–98

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
late 16th–early 17th century

Carpet, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet
mid-17th century

Fragments of a Carpet, Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Fragments of a Carpet
mid-17th century

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms
ca. 1650

Carpet with Niche and Flower Design, Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet with Niche and Flower Design
mid-17th century

Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants, Cotton (warp and weft); wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants
ca. 1650

Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Fragments of a Carpet with Lattice and Blossom Pattern
ca. 1650

Carpet Fragment, Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Carpet Fragment
ca. 1650

Fragment of a Floorspread, Cotton; plain weave, mordant-painted and dyed, resist-dyed — Fragment of a Floorspread
late 17th century

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises, Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with brass (bidri ware) — Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
late 17th century

Woven Hanging, Pashmina wool; double interlocking twill tapestry weave — Woven Hanging
ca. 1820

Pashmina Carpet with Gateway-and-Millefleur Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile — Pashmina Carpet with Gateway-and-Millefleur Pattern
second half 18th century

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Walker, Daniel S. 1997. Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams.