Floral Carpet

A small Mughal "niche and flower" fragment, of rectangular form, depicting a central trefoil. The petals serrated at the upper edge, gently upheld by a pair of affronted elongated split-"saz" leaves with outward-curling tips, slightly rising from the lower edge of the fragment, all in yellow outlined by a very fine green line and shaded in red. Flanked on either side by an inward-curving stemmed palmate leaf, finely veined in reserve on a pale green ground, the serrated edge outlined by a fine green line, which is springing from a yellow blossom at the lower corner of the fragment. All set against a cream white ground, surmounted by a vertically-oriented narrow band enclosing small pink vertically-adjoined inverted S - shapes on a cream-coloured ground and outlined by a paired fine line in green and red which is topped by the lower part of a wide band of two intersecting scrolls with diagonally-oriented yellow "saz" leaves, outlined by a fine red line and set against a pale green ground.