A silk rug with stitched and bombed metal strings from the eighteenth century was sold at Sotheby’s auction in the British capital of London for the price of 50,400 thousand pounds, or 1.354. 752 Egyptian pounds.
In addition to selling Islamic manual carpets, the “Islamic and Indian World Arts” auction also featured the sale of eastern carpets, numerous paper manuscripts, and various Quranic Qur’ans in terms of form and design. The Sotheby House offered the carpet at an estimated price ranging from 18 thousand pounds to 25 thousand pounds.
According to the auction house, the eighteenth century carpet has an area of 317 x 210 cm, and it was produced in the port of Campay in the state of Gujarat, where the Gjujarat embroidery of this quality was used inside the Mongol tiles or was exported to Europe from the sixteenth century onwards.
Mongolian miniatures sometimes show the noble men seated on finely embroidered sins, which were used as a cooler alternative to carpets in the heat.
The Mongolia is shown in the early eighteenth-century painting, perched on a balcony and perched on a similarly embroidered summer mat.
These lovely embroidered textiles were first brought into Europe by the Portuguese, whose commerce was supervised by the East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
According to the company’s documents, instructions were provided regarding the origin of “the craft and carpets of all types manufactured around Kambaya and other places.
This exquisite embroidery may have been ordered by George Mathamm, an East Indian Company representative who lived in Barush, Gujarat from 1771 to 1785, and has since been in the possession of the same family. It is rare to find floors scattered with this quality, origin and condition.
the carpet from antiquity.
starting in the 18th century… the sale of a silk rug of more than one million and 350 thousand pounds
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