id: 115383 accession number: 1936.17 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.17 updated: 2022-01-13 10:01:07.004000 Woolen carpet with millefleurs decoration, early 1600s. India, Mughal, Kashmir, 17th century. Asymmetrical knot: pashmina (wool); average: 292.7 x 248.9 cm (115 1/4 x 98 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1936.17 title: Woolen carpet with millefleurs decoration title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1600s creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1620 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Mughal, Kashmir, 17th century technique: asymmetrical knot: pashmina (wool) department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Carpet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 292.7 x 248.9 cm (115 1/4 x 98 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Autumn Flower Show opening date: 1935-11-01T04:00:00 Autumn Flower Show. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-December 1, 1935). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: India's Art opening date: 1949-12-02T05:00:00 India's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950). title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Sultan Abdul Aziz date: footnotes: citations: Henry G. Marquand, Esq. [1819–1902], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: (P. W. French and Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1936 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1936– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This tour de force of Mughal weaving sets symmetrically intertwined flowering vines against a deep wine-red ground. The small-scale flowers that fill the ground space appear to be so numerous that this type of pattern is given the name millefleurs, “thousand flowers” in French, after a type of medieval European tapestry pattern. The use of pashmina wool indicates that this work was made in Kashmir, near the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India. They lend a silken sheen that augments the carpet’s luxurious quality. Mughal carpets of this type were prized by Europeans and Americans during the 18th and 19th centuries. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 784 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n140 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 240 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n264 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 240 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n264 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 311 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n331 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.17/1936.17_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.17/1936.17_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1936.17/1936.17_full.tif