Fragment
early 18th century (made)
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This single flowering plant motif (boteh) comes from the border of a Kashmir shawl. The naturalistic flowering plant of earlier shawls had given way to a rather ungainly stylisation by the time this shawl was woven, in the early 18th century, but had not yet become the totally un-naturalistic deisgn that became so popular in the West later in the 19th century.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Goat-hair wool lined with silk and silver brocade |
| Brief description | Fragment from a border for a shawl woven in goat-hair wool, made in Kashmir, early 18th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from a border for a shawl woven in goat's wool (pashmina) in colours on an undyed pashmina ground. With a single flowering plant motif (boteh) in red, yellow and blue/green against an undyed ground. With vertical device of six rose-like flowers growing from a cluster of rose-leaves. Above and below is a running floral fillet. Lining of flowered silk and silver brocade. |
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| Gallery label | BORDER FRAGMENT FROM A SHAWL: Goat-hair wool, Mughal made in Kashmir, early 18th century.(Nehru Gallery, 2001) |
| Credit line | Given by Nasli H. Heeramaneck, Esq. |
| Object history | Given by Mr. N.Heeramaneck |
| Summary | This single flowering plant motif (boteh) comes from the border of a Kashmir shawl. The naturalistic flowering plant of earlier shawls had given way to a rather ungainly stylisation by the time this shawl was woven, in the early 18th century, but had not yet become the totally un-naturalistic deisgn that became so popular in the West later in the 19th century. |
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| Accession number | IM.48-1924 |
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| Record created | March 20, 2008 |
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