A LARGE KASHMIRI SQUARE SHAWL (RUMAL) Kashmir, Indian subcontinent, 19th...
A LARGE KASHMIRI SQUARE SHAWL (RUMAL)
Kashmir, Indian subcontinent, 19th century
Wool, with a central white field decorated with four kunjbatas (corner ornaments) bordered by a wide band embroidered with elongated butah leaves on a red ground. Narrower pallas (borders) are woven with brightly coloured niches repeated against a white ground, square shawls (rumal) such as this were most commonly worn by local women as symbols of high social status; however, under European colonial rule, they were also widely exported to Western markets, strongly influencing European fashion from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
178.5cm x 175cm
For similar examples:
MFA, Boston, Acc. no. 43.1507.
Christie's, An Important Private Collection of Kashmir Shawls, 18 June 2019, lot 2.
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
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A LARGE KASHMIRI SQUARE SHAWL (RUMAL)
Kashmir, Indian subcontinent, 19th century
Wool, with a central white field decorated with four kunjbatas (corner ornaments) bordered by a wide band embroidered with elongated butah leaves on a red ground. Narrower pallas (borders) are woven with brightly coloured niches repeated against a white ground, square shawls (rumal) such as this were most commonly worn by local women as symbols of high social status; however, under European colonial rule, they were also widely exported to Western markets, strongly influencing European fashion from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
178.5cm x 175cm
For similar examples:
MFA, Boston, Acc. no. 43.1507.
Christie's, An Important Private Collection of Kashmir Shawls, 18 June 2019, lot 2.
Provenance:
The collection of Georges Antaki.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
