Sale 6908
London, South Kensington
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11 July 1995
Price realised
GBP 90
Estimate
Assorted woven, printed and embroidered textiles including, a finely woven crimson shawl fragment, with boteh and floral sprigs, 18th/19th century, and an embroidered crimson silk Sindh tunic, Indian and Turkish, mainly 19th century
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