India, possibly Lahore or Abhar

Carpet

1675/1700
Cotton, wool, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Sehna (Persian) knots;" pieced
188.5 × 147.8 cm (74.2 × 58.2 in)

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