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KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
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AN EMBROIDERED COAT
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
The white ground embroidered with foliate palmettes and medallions, to the front and sleeves, the back with a drop-shaped embroidered field depicting a courtly scene with standing courtiers issuing a hanging cusped medallion with Ganesha and his mount, the borders with kneeling figures, flanked by two pavilions sheltering seated ladies with their attendants beneath, the whole delineated by mythical beings, felines and birds, the borders and sleeves embroidered with a continuous band of arches inhabited by anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures
74½in. (189cm.) across
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
The white ground embroidered with foliate palmettes and medallions, to the front and sleeves, the back with a drop-shaped embroidered field depicting a courtly scene with standing courtiers issuing a hanging cusped medallion with Ganesha and his mount, the borders with kneeling figures, flanked by two pavilions sheltering seated ladies with their attendants beneath, the whole delineated by mythical beings, felines and birds, the borders and sleeves embroidered with a continuous band of arches inhabited by anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures
74½in. (189cm.) across