A Pair of Mughal Carved Wooden Doors, India, 17th Century

comprising two wooden doors, each of rectangular form divided into three panels finely carved with flowering plants within lobed cartouches, the spandrels filled with cloud motifs, affixed at the back, reverse plain

In generally good overall condition, scuffs and abrasions to extremities consistent with age, carving bold and strong, as viewed.
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This pair of beautiful doors displays a subtle yet bold design of elegant leafy poppy plants, a style of decoration typical of seventeenth-century Mughal art, which can be found in various other media, including the margins of paintings, in carved and inlaid stone, and in textile embroidery. A comparable pair of doors is in the David Collection, published in the exhibition catalogue Sultan, Shah, and Great Mughal, The National Museum, Copenhagen, 1996, pp. 311, 337, 338.