NORTH INDIA, POSSIBLY DELHI, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A SILK AND GOLD-THREAD EMBROIDERED SASH
NORTH INDIA, POSSIBLY DELHI, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The gold slide-bar and buckle each set with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, backed with an orange velvet
Sash 2 ins. (5.1 cm.) wide; bar 4 ¼ ins. (12.1 cm.) wide; buckle 2 ½ x 3 1/8 ins. (6.5 x 8 cm.)

Literature

Jaffer 2013, pp.226-228, no.93

Exhibited

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014, pp.82-83
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2015, p.116, no.65
The Miho Museum, Koka 2016, pp.138-39, no.104
Grand Palais, Paris 2017, pp.264-65, no.197
The Doge’s Palace, Venice 2017, p.128, no.193
The Palace Museum, Beijing 2018, p.297, no. 197

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This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A very similar buckle was fitted to the centre of a tortoiseshell shield presented to the Prince of Wales on his tour of India in 1876, now in the British Royal Collection. (inv.no. RCIN 11411; Meghani, 2018, p.147). Presented by the Maharaja of Patiala, it was already at that stage reported in the Illustrated London News as being re-used from another setting.

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