SHABAN, THE GOLD BROCADE MAKER from the Indian Craftsmen series, wearing exotic regional dress and seated cross-legged before a wooden wheel, on a cloth draped on a shaped footed base, painted in pale-apricot and ivory enriched in gilding (restoration and minute chip to wheel, restoration to right knee and hand and to cloth and to robe on reverse), impressed and purple printed marks, model number 1203, date code for 1888