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Saddle Cloth

ca. 1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Saddle cloth of woollen broadcloth embroidered with silk. The side panels are decorated with stylised motifs, and with silver and silk tassels around the edges. Roughly rectangular with additional triangular panels applied to the front sides and falls over the horse's shoulders. These panels and a large applied dome-shaped panel to lie over the neck, are patterned with a symmetrical arrangement of heart-shaped compartments, cone-forms and rosettes in colours on an orange ground. The rear part of the cloth has an aperture for the tail edged with scalloped green leather, and the corners are reinforced with openwork brown leather panels. The weighting tassels consist of large chowri-like pendants from which hang three similar and smaller pendants.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered woollen broadcloth with silk, deerskin appliqué and silver
Brief description
Saddle cloth of woollen broadcloth embroidered with silk, Baluchistan, ca. 1900.
Physical description
Saddle cloth of woollen broadcloth embroidered with silk. The side panels are decorated with stylised motifs, and with silver and silk tassels around the edges. Roughly rectangular with additional triangular panels applied to the front sides and falls over the horse's shoulders. These panels and a large applied dome-shaped panel to lie over the neck, are patterned with a symmetrical arrangement of heart-shaped compartments, cone-forms and rosettes in colours on an orange ground. The rear part of the cloth has an aperture for the tail edged with scalloped green leather, and the corners are reinforced with openwork brown leather panels. The weighting tassels consist of large chowri-like pendants from which hang three similar and smaller pendants.
Dimensions
  • Length: 120cm
  • Width: 154cm (maximum)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Production
probably from Nasirabad, Kachi plain
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.70, pl. 111
Collection
Accession number
IM.311-1927

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Record createdNovember 8, 2002
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