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Lot 232*

A Mughal woven wool garment fragment
Kashmir, circa 1700

25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £8,287.50 inc. premium

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A Mughal woven wool garment fragment
Kashmir, circa 1700

of irregular rectangular form, woven in cream, green, pink, red and black wool with a repeat design of floral sprays, framed
49 x 30 cm.

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Provenance
Private US collection, acquired in the mid 1980s.

Lengths of fabric, called jamewar, were woven with simple repeat designs and no further ornamentation, unlike in shawl manufacture, to be used for tailoring clothes. For a garment fragment made from the an almost identical length of woven wool in the Tapi collection, see R. Barnes, S. Cohen and R. Crill, Trade, Temple and Court, Indian Textiles from the Tapi Collection, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 124-5, fig. 47.

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