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Embroidery
Indian
17th century
Object Place: India
Medium/Technique
Cotton and silk; embroidery
Dimensions
Overall: 12.5 x 13.5 cm (4 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Accession Number28.212
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CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: worn pinkish red, and bluish green velvet, sewed together, backed by piece of coarse light brown cotton. Design: on pinkish red ground, cow worked with tarnished gold thread (gilded silver wound on yellow silk), horns hoofs and ears worked bluish green silk; on bluish green ground parts of two borders worked with tarnished gold thread. Very much worn and torn.
ProvenanceGift from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to the MFA, April 5, 1928