AN AGRA CARPET, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3002455

450 by 350 cm. 'Agra' carpets were produced in the jail workshops of North India in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, for the European, mainly British market, where they decorated the drawing rooms of both the aristocrats and newly rich of rapidly-industrialising Britain.