Textile
ca. 1881-1882 (made)
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Large cut piece of dark pink silk, brocaded with alternate stripes of gold-wrapped thread, featuring a small foliate lattice in silver-wrapped thread and bands of scrolling flowers and leaves in gold-wrapped thread.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk, gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped silk thread brocade |
| Brief description | Textile, fragment, silk, gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped thread brocade, Varanasi, ca. 1881-1882 |
| Physical description | Large cut piece of dark pink silk, brocaded with alternate stripes of gold-wrapped thread, featuring a small foliate lattice in silver-wrapped thread and bands of scrolling flowers and leaves in gold-wrapped thread. |
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| Object history | Acquired by Caspar Purdon Clarke on his purchasing trip to India in 1881 to 1882. |
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| Accession number | IS.783-1883 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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