Betel Bag
c.1867 (made)
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Shaped bag made of silk with five larger pockets and two smaller ones, various coloured silks embroidered with gold-wrapped thread, coloured floss silks and red, green and silver-coloured flattened metal (probably tin), with braid around the edges, the back lined with black and white striped silk. The top section is embroidered with birds and flowers. Complete piece.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk, embroidered with silk. gold-wrapped thread and flattened metal wire (probably tin) |
| Brief description | Betel nut bag, silk embroidered with floss silks and couched with silver-gilt wrapped thread, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, c.1867 |
| Physical description | Shaped bag made of silk with five larger pockets and two smaller ones, various coloured silks embroidered with gold-wrapped thread, coloured floss silks and red, green and silver-coloured flattened metal (probably tin), with braid around the edges, the back lined with black and white striped silk. The top section is embroidered with birds and flowers. Complete piece. |
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| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. India Museum Slip book entry 5766: 'Betelnut bag / Chunchee / Ahmednuggur, Bombay / 1867 / Original nos. 190 / silk embroidered in gold / Price Rs.8.' |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ashmore, Sonia: Arts of Asia, vol. 45, no. 5, September - October 2015, "The Parasol Foundation Trust Programme: digitising and cataloguing the V&A's South Asian collection.", p. 108, pl. 30. |
| Other number | 5766 - India Museum Slip Book |
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| Accession number | 4514(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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