Maharaja Yashwant Rao Holkar II of Indore, Manik Bagh Palace, Indore, India
Sotheby's, Monaco, 'Arts Décoratifs du XXe siècle', 11 October, 1987, lot 331
Private collection
Sotheby's, London, 'Applied Arts from 1880', 29 March, 1996, lot 289
Acquired from the above by the present owner
'Indisches Märchenschloß 1933, Eine Berliner Architekt baut den Palast des Maharadschas von Indore', Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, no. 46, November 1933, n.p. for the rug in situ
Robert Descharnes, 'En Indie un Palais 1930', Connaissance des Arts, no. 223, September 1970, pp. 52, 55 for the rug in situ
Agnolodomenico Pica, 'Eckart Muthesius in India, The avant-garde meets history', Domus, no. 593, April 1979, p. 8 for the rug in situ
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray: Architect-Designer, London, 1987, p. 188 for the rug in situ
Yvonne Brunhammer, Les Styles des Années 30 à 50, Paris, 1987, p. 52, fig. 1 for the rug in situ
Patricia Bayer, Art Deco Interiors, London, 1990, p. 136 the rug in situ
Philippe Garner, Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect, Berlin, 1993, p. 36 for the rug in situ
'Marketplace', Hali, The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art, no. 87, July 1996, p. 160
Reto Niggl, Eckart Muthesius 1930: The Maharaja's Palace in Indore, Architecture and Interior, Stuttgart, 1996, pp. 74-75 for the rug in situ
'Art Deco Masterworks, The Carpets of Ivan da Silva Bruhns', Hali, The International Magazine of Antique Carpet and Textile Art, no. 105, July-August 1999, p. 80
Reto Niggl, Eckart Muthesius: India, 1930 - 1939, Berlin, 1999, pp. 70-71 for the rug in situ
Christopher Farr, Matthew Bourne, Fiona Leslie, Contemporary Rugs, Art and Design, London, 2002, p. 26, fig. 18
'The Fabled Manik Bagh, A Muthesius-Designed Palace for the Maharaja of Indore', Architectural Digest, May 2002, p. 106 for rug in situ
Le Palais Du Maharajah D'Indore, photographs, exh. cat., Galerie Doria, Paris, 2006, pp. 89, 91 for the rug in situ
Peter Adam, Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work, Munich, 2008, front cover p. 96 for the rug in situ
Eileen Gray sous la direction de Cloé Pitiot, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2013, p. 69 for the rug in situ