A BROCADED TEMPLE HANGING

Lot 160
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 6 000
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ID 1306438
Lot 160 | A BROCADED TEMPLE HANGING
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
A BROCADED TEMPLE HANGING
GUJARAT, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
The central red cotton field brocaded in metal-thread decorated with alternating rows of confronted white birds and stylised palms, the border with similar design on a green ground, square panel in each corner with a peacock on red ground, backed onto red cotton with hanging loops along the top edge
72 ½in. x 44 7/8in. (184 x 114cm.)




Provenance

Private London collection by the 1960s and thence by descent



Literature

Vivek Nanda, Krishna and Devotion: Temple Hangings from Western India, London, 2009, cat. 24, p.80



Exhibited

Krishna and Devotion: Temple Hangings from Western India, Asia House, London, February - April 2009, cat.24
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