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拍品 19
A skirt or shoulder cloth of printed cotton, block printed and dyed with a field of interlacing blue medallions with madder red star-shaped flower formations between, embellished with glued gold leaf--104 x 45in. (262 x 104cm.), Coromandel coast for the Sumatran market, 19th century
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GBP 900
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Only the areas on display when the garment is worn are embellished with gilt in a technique know as prada mas. The gold leaf is thought to have been applied locally to the imported printed textile.
CF Woven Cargoes, Indian Textiles in the East, John Guy, Thames and Hudson, 1998, figure 75, pages 64-65.
CF Woven Cargoes, Indian Textiles in the East, John Guy, Thames and Hudson, 1998, figure 75, pages 64-65.