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Lot Essay
Compare to a slightly earlier appliqué in V. Reynolds, From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from The Newark Museum, 1999, p.222, cat. no. 127, where the author notes that fine silk damasks and brocades were often imported from China and worked in a traditional Tibetan technique of cording from silk-wrapped horse hair, used to delineate facial features and floral details.