THREE KALAMKARI BOCCHAS
India made for the Persian market, lined and assembled in Iran, 19th century

THREE KALAMKARI BOCCHAS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR
India made for the Persian market, lined and assembled in Iran, 19th century

Comprising a boccha of square shape, the ground of white fine cotton hand-printed, painted, resist and mordant-dyed in madder red, blue, ochre, manganese purple, and green with peacocks and parakeets perched on scrolling hibiscus, the multiple borders of buti, foliage, and stylised floral friezes framing a broad polychrome floriate chevron band, edged with bias-cut Persian polychrome striped tape, lined in roller-printed Russian cotton, 108cm x 101cm; another with a glazed white cotton ground with staggered rows of floral buti, hand-edged with late 18th century bias-cut Kashmiri jamawar pashmina shawl cloth, woven with stylised carnations against a navy ground, lined in roller-printed floral cotton, 67cm x 68cm; and lastly, another with a glazed white ground with a fine trellis grid containing floral sprigs, narrow borders of miniscule floral scroll inserts, edged with a bias-cut border of red and white floral stripes, lined in European printed cotton (possibly from Manchester), 89cm x 90cm.

(Quantity:3)

Dimensions: the largest 108cm x 101cm