Northern Indian
Further images
Cord-quilted bedcover or coverlet of white cotton with blue cotton cording. With a large central medallion with radiating pattern of stylized florals and cusped outer border with botehs; the field with double-ogival lattice enclosing floral sprays and foliate sprays in alternate rows; quarter corner medallions with boteh and stylized foliage; two inner borders with stylized floral sprays and floral vine; wide border with elongated botehs alternating with floral sprays; narrow outer border with stylized flowerheads on scrolling stems
Related quilts include those in the V&A Museum, all collected before 1884 (5414(IS), 5415(IS), IS.1386-1883, IS.1387-1883). See also a coverlet formerly belonging to a Miss Calander in M. E. Rolleston, "An Eighteenth Century Quilt of Unusual Design," The Embroideress, no. 45 (1933): 1062–64.
Provenance
Acquired at Phillips, UK, 1980
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