A LARGE FIGURAL EMBROIDERY PANEL

CHAMBA, PUNJAB HILLS, CIRCA 1880

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A LARGE FIGURAL EMBROIDERY PANEL
CHAMBA, PUNJAB HILLS, CIRCA 1880
The white ground occupied by standing and kneeling figures and deities, including Ganesha and Durga, paying hommage to an enthroned couple under a wedding pavilion (mandapa), possibly Krishna and his consort Rukmini, the borders embroidered with a continuous foliate scroll, on wooden frame
52 x 26¼in. (132 x 66.5cm.)

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A coverlet of similar size and embroidered in the same style is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and attributed to Chamba, circa 1880. It depicts the marriage of Krishna and Rukmini (IS-1883, Arts of India, 1990, cat.129, p.150).

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