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. Fragment from a border for a shawl woven in goat-hair wool, made in Kashmir, early 18th century. 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. BORDER FRAGMENT FROM A SHAWL: Goat-hair wool, Mughal made in Kashmir, early 18th century. [Nehru Gallery, 2001]