Robe
19th century (made)
| Place of origin |
Woman's dress, crimson silk embroidered with unusual chain-stitch embroidery
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | silk with chain-stitch |
| Brief description | Women's dress, crimson silk, embroidered, Kachi plpain, 19th century |
| Physical description | Woman's dress, crimson silk embroidered with unusual chain-stitch embroidery |
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| Object history | This costume may have been commissioned in either Shikarpur or Jacobabad. It entered the India Museum collections in 1873, but its acquisition record states that it was "taken at the capture of Ghazni" (1842) |
| Bibliographic reference | Colours of the Indus : costume and textiles of Pakistan / Nasreen Askari and Rosemary Crill. London: Merrell Holberton in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997 Number: 1858940443
p. 71, fig. 113 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 849-1873 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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