Antique Indian Amritsar Mansion Carpet, Ivory Floral, Purple Border, Circa 1900
| Stock number | 17300 |
| Size | 14 ft x 27 ft 1 in (4.27 m x 8.25 m) |
| Origin | India |
| Age | Circa 1900 |
| Style | Amritsar |
| Materials | Wool |
| Construction | Hand Knotted Pile |
| Colors | Ivory Beige Cream White |
| Pattern | Allover |
A monumental early 20th-century Indian Amritsar mansion carpet from around 1900, measuring approximately 426.7 × 823.0 cm (about 14'0" × 27'0"). The composition is a finely drawn floral design over an ivory ground, framed by a purple-toned border — derived, per the original ARS catalog notes, from the famous 16th-century Ardabil carpets, with a multiply pendanted central medallion suspending two mosque lamps and en-suite quarter corners on a field of tightly coiled arabesques. Amritsar, in the Punjab region of northern India, became a major center of room-sized hand-knotted carpet production in the late 19th century, working from both Persian and classical Indian design vocabularies for export to Europe and North America. Hand-knotted wool. Authentic one-of-a-kind antique.