A fine embroidered coverlet, the quilted ground worked in silks and metal thread with a field of elegant flowering vines bearing exotic blooms around a central ogival medallion, the borders with large-scale palmettes within a scrolling foliate meander and with bands of single red flower-sprays--125 x 104in. (318 x 264cm.), Mughal, for the European market, 18th century
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A fine embroidered coverlet, the quilted ground worked in silks and metal thread with a field of elegant flowering vines bearing exotic blooms around a central ogival medallion, the borders with large-scale palmettes within a scrolling foliate meander and with bands of single red flower-sprays--125 x 104in. (318 x 264cm.), Mughal, for the European market, 18th century

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A fine embroidered coverlet, the quilted ground worked in silks and metal thread with a field of elegant flowering vines bearing exotic blooms around a central ogival medallion, the borders with large-scale palmettes within a scrolling foliate meander and with bands of single red flower-sprays--125 x 104in. (318 x 264cm.), Mughal, for the European market, 18th century
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Related examples can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and in the Fountain Room at Waddesdon Manor, Berkshire. See HALI, Issue 119, 'A Foretaste of Paradise - Indian Export Needlework', Lanto Synge, pages 87-93, where a similar coverlet is illustrated, fig. 6

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