DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1800

This panel is part of a group of embroideries with elaborate floral decoration initially attributed to various centres in India including Goa and Gujarat and now thought to have been produced in the Deccan in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. A related example dated to circa 1800 is in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (acc.no.95.79; Dye III, 2001, no.232, pp.479-481). An embroidered coverlet dated to the mid-18th century is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc.no.783-1864; illus. in Crill, 1999, p.35, pl.16). It was purchased by the Museum as formerly the property of Tipu Sultan taken at Seringapatam. For another large embroidered panel dated to the mid-18th century, see Simon Ray, London, 2005, no.63.

A slightly smaller panel with almost identical dense, scrolling floral decoration sold in these Rooms, 9 October 2014, lot 154. A panel with the central floral decoration arranged in a lattice sold recently at Christie’s, South Kensington, 28 April 2017, lot 376. For another panel which sold at auction, see Bonhams, London, 24 April 2012, lot 212.