1701 / 1725, Jammu and Kashmir

1701 / 1725, Jammu and Kashmir

Identifier
IM.48-1924
Acquisition
Given by Nasli H. Heeramaneck, Esq.
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
27.899999618530273 cm (height)
27.940000534057617 cm (height)
11.399999618530273 cm (width)
11.7475004196167 cm (width)
Production time
Production place
Type of object

Description

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]