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Length of woman’s skirt fabric
Indian (Gujarat)
18th century
Object Place: Aurangabad, India
Medium/Technique
Silk twill weave with silk and metallic discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts
Dimensions
100 x 67.5 cm (39 3/8 x 26 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number31.891
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionRed silk 3/1 twill weave ground. Field has rows of golden flowers growing from gold and blue "cornucopia-like" horns. Gold clover motif along three sides of the piece. Two borders--one yellow with no patterning and the other has a gold ground with pink floral meandering vines.
ProvenancePurchased by the MFA, October 8, 1931