English
Further images
Panel from a silk-embroidered linen coverlet with motifs in imitation of Deccani and Gujarati embroidery. With meandering, stylized florals and foliage on a false-quilted ground. Wide band at top with individual sprigs with narrow band below with scrolling floral vine; the field with large-scale serpentine flowering branches with roses, carnations, and tulips; narrow band with scrolling floral vine on all four sides; worked primarily in long-and-short and satin stitches and French knots in shades of red, pink, green, and yellow; the yellow silk false-quilted ground worked in backstitch
Very good condition. Conservation mounted to modern muslin for hanging
Provenance
Bernheimer Fine Arts Ltd.Publications
Published in Jennifer Harris, Textiles: 5,000 Years (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993), 208, fig. 247; and Flora: The Flower of the Textile Arts (London: Bernheimer, 1990).
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