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Woman's dress with embroidered bib
Kutch, India, 19th-early …
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135
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Woman's dress with embroidered bib
Kutch, India, 19th-early …
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €1,800
Voluntary lot
Description
Woman's dress with embroidered bib
Kutch, India, 19th-early 20th century
Dark green silk embroidered with polychrome threads in floral motifs on a background of small set mirrors (shisha); straight cut with long sleeves, embroidered central bib and side pocket.
Condition: a few alterations; good overall conservation of the embroidery. One yoke on the side.
Size: 121 x 108 cm (47.6 x 42.5 in.)
The embroidery of Kutch, a region of western Gujarat, is renowned for the finesse of its silk thread work and the systematic use of shisha - inlaying small mirrors into the embroidery - which gives the garments their shimmering, apotropaic character.
A Kutch embroidered silk woman's dress with mirror-work floral decoration, India, 19th-early 20th century
See original version (French)
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