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A long jamawar shawl, the red ground woven to each end with a tall leafy palmette flower within an arched cartouche, flanked by serpentine scrolling palm-tipped vines, the residual stellar field of black wool outlined with inserts of ivory wool, trimmed with embroidered harlequin borders--139 x 55in. (352 x 140cm.), Kashmir, second half of the 19th century, moth damage; and another long jamawar shawl woven with arched niches outlined in white, enclosing pairs of adorsed boteh and curving fronds--126 x 59in. (320 x 150cm.), Kashmir, 19th century, tears (2)

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A long jamawar shawl, the red ground woven to each end with a tall leafy palmette flower within an arched cartouche, flanked by serpentine scrolling palm-tipped vines, the residual stellar field of black wool outlined with inserts of ivory wool, trimmed with embroidered harlequin borders--139 x 55in. (352 x 140cm.), Kashmir, second half of the 19th century, moth damage; and another long jamawar shawl woven with arched niches outlined in white, enclosing pairs of adorsed boteh and curving fronds--126 x 59in. (320 x 150cm.), Kashmir, 19th century, tears (2)
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