Lot 82
A Rare Indian Quiver, And A French (Louis XV) Saddle-Cloth Both 18th Century
30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,500 inc. premium
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A Rare Indian Quiver, And A French (Louis XV) Saddle-Cloth
Both 18th Century
The first of leather lined in red baize (moth damaged and incomplete), the outer surface and suspension strap embroidered in coloured and silver-wrapped threads with flower-heads and foliage, and with plaited carrying cords en suite (worn overall); the second of olive green velvet lined with hessian, shaped to the horse's crupper and the rear of the saddle, and embroidered in silver threads with a symmetrical design of scrolling foliage involving a dolphin on each side (some damage and some threads loose), and with a silver bullion and olive green silk fringe (2)
65 cm. high and 93 cm. wide
The first of leather lined in red baize (moth damaged and incomplete), the outer surface and suspension strap embroidered in coloured and silver-wrapped threads with flower-heads and foliage, and with plaited carrying cords en suite (worn overall); the second of olive green velvet lined with hessian, shaped to the horse's crupper and the rear of the saddle, and embroidered in silver threads with a symmetrical design of scrolling foliage involving a dolphin on each side (some damage and some threads loose), and with a silver bullion and olive green silk fringe (2)
65 cm. high and 93 cm. wide
Footnotes
For related examples to the first see Howard Ricketts and Philippe Missillier, Splendour Des Armes Orientales, d'Acte-Expo, Paris, 4 May - 31 June 1988, p. 109, no. 84 (illustrated in colour) and p. 189; and Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight..., 2007, p. 389, fig. 365