Portion of a Carpet with Animals, Masks and Vases

between ca. 1580 and 1585

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About the Artwork

Title Portion of a Carpet with Animals, Masks and Vases

Artwork Date between ca. 1580 and 1585

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Indian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Cotton warps and wefts, wool pile

Dimensions Overall: 70 1/2 × 76 inches (179.1 × 193 cm)

Classification Rugs

Department Islamic Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 31.64

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Provenance

Mr. Roden (Frankfurt, Germany).
June 4, 1931, sold at Octave Homberg Sale (Galerie Georges Petit, Hotel Drouot, Paris, France), lot 123;
1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sarre, F. and F.R. Martin, eds. Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in Munchen. 1910, no. 180, pl. 84, [rpt: Alexandria Press, London, 1985.]

Aga-oglu, Mehmet. Bulletin of the DIA 13 (October 1931): no. 1.

The Art of Greater India. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, March 1-April 16, 1950, no. 171, p. 111 (ill.).

Erdman, Kurt. Oriental Carpets. New York, 1960, p. 57, no. 70 p. 170.

Gans-Ruedin, E. Le Tapis des Indes. Paris, 1984, p. 70, [fragment of similar or same rug, Burrell Collection Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries; 60 knots per square cm., Persian knot.]

Sindermann, Franz. "A Group of Indian Carpet Fragments with Animal Grotesque Design on a Red Ground," Oriental Rug Review, vol. 15 (June/July 1995): pp. 21-27, [discusses 15 existing fragments from at least 2 rugs and reconstructs pattern] (ill. on cover).

Cohen, Steven J. “A fearful Symmetry: The Mughal Red-Ground 'Grotesque' Carpets.” In Silk and Stone: The Art of Asia. The Third Hali Annual. London, 1996, pp. 104-135; p. 109 (fig. 6).

Walker, Daniel. Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1997, pp. 33-37, [discusses "fantastic animal pattern" of 15 large and few smaller fragments, all from probably two carpets. DIA fragment]; p. 34 (fig. 21) (cat. no. 1a) [fragment from the Textile Museum Washington]; p. 35 (fig. 22); (fig. 23-25) [reconstruction of patterns].

Klose, Christine. "Fragments with Animal Grotesque Design," Ghereh, vol. 18 (winter 1998/99): (fig. 2, 3), pp. 8.9; (fig. 11), p. 18.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Indian, Portion of a Carpet with Animals, Masks and Vases, between ca. 1580 and 1585, cotton warps and wefts, wool pile. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund, 31.64.