A prayer arch woven with a white ground niche with flowering column culminating in a circular floral medallion, the niche formed by overlapping leaves, Kashmir, circa 1800

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A prayer arch woven with a white ground niche with flowering column culminating in a circular floral medallion, the niche formed by overlapping leaves, Kashmir, circa 1800

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Other examples of this kind of weaving are published as follows:

Frank Ames, The Kashmir Shawl, Page 248, nos 161a and 161b
Heinrich Jacoby, 'Eine Sammlung Orientalischer Teppiche' 1923, Fig 24, p 22

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