A MUGHAL EMBROIDERY

NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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A MUGHAL EMBROIDERY
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
The quilted ivory silk field with large silk embroidered flowering shrubs within a border of smaller floral sprigs
170 x 150cm.

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A textile fragment with a very similar floral blooms and curved foliage is in the collection of Mehrangarh Museum in Jodhpur, see Rahul Jain, Durbar: Royal Textiles of Jodhpur, Exhibition Catalogue, New Delhi, 2009, fig. 14, p. 144.

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