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Manuscript cover
Indian (Jaina)
16th or 17th century
Object Place: Jaina, India
Medium/Technique
Cotton plain-weave gauze embroidered in silk; mounted on cardboard
Dimensions
Overall: 13 x 29.5cm (5 1/8 x 11 5/8in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2305
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CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionJaina manscript cover with design of repeating diamond lozenge pattern embroidered in red, blue, tan and white silk (traces of black silk outlining diamonds) on a natural plain-weave cotton gauze ground; mounted on cardboard.
Provenance1913, purchased from the library of Puj Kripa Rishi, a Jaina priest, Patti, Panjab by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)