Lot 11
11
A long patchwork jamawar shawl, woven with scroll-tipped vines and undulating bands of heart-shaped palmettes surrounding a reisidual field of black wool with small embroidered numerical inscription, trimmed with embroidered harlequin borders--130 x 56in. (330 x 142cm.) in original white cardboard presentation box labelled in gilt lettering COMPAGNIE DES INDES, CACHEMIRES-DENTELLES, Kashmir, second half of the 19th century
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A long patchwork jamawar shawl, woven with scroll-tipped vines and undulating bands of heart-shaped palmettes surrounding a reisidual field of black wool with small embroidered numerical inscription, trimmed with embroidered harlequin borders--130 x 56in. (330 x 142cm.) in original white cardboard presentation box labelled in gilt lettering COMPAGNIE DES INDES, CACHEMIRES-DENTELLES, Kashmir, second half of the 19th century

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A long patchwork jamawar shawl, woven with scroll-tipped vines and undulating bands of heart-shaped palmettes surrounding a reisidual field of black wool with small embroidered numerical inscription, trimmed with embroidered harlequin borders--130 x 56in. (330 x 142cm.) in original white cardboard presentation box labelled in gilt lettering COMPAGNIE DES INDES, CACHEMIRES-DENTELLES, Kashmir, second half of the 19th century
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

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