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KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
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AN EMBROIDERED COAT
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
The white pashmina ground embroidered with foliate palmettes and medallions, to the front and sleeves, the back with a tear-shaped cartouche with figures in a pavilion, flanked by two palace scenes, peacocks and felines, and a large hanging cusped medallion with a musician entertaining a princess, the borders embroidered with a continuous band of inhabited medallions interspersed with anthropomorphic patterns
74in. (188cm.) across
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
The white pashmina ground embroidered with foliate palmettes and medallions, to the front and sleeves, the back with a tear-shaped cartouche with figures in a pavilion, flanked by two palace scenes, peacocks and felines, and a large hanging cusped medallion with a musician entertaining a princess, the borders embroidered with a continuous band of inhabited medallions interspersed with anthropomorphic patterns
74in. (188cm.) across