A PLUM VELVET COVER WITH PEACOCKS
Rawalpindi, modern-day Pakistan, 20th century

A PLUM VELVET COVER WITH PEACOCKS
Rawalpindi, modern-day Pakistan, 20th century

Of square shape, the joined plum silk velvet ground worked in metallic threads, spangles, and purple and pink silks in a variety of techniques including raised strapwork, in the middle a sunburst of long-stemmed flowers alternatively pointing towards and away from the centre, the sides with open-feathered peacocks in double floral festoons held aloft by birds in flight, with a silk red fringe, lined in brown cotton, dedicatory embroidered words unpicked from the lining at the back still reading ‘Presented to Mohd Abdul Aziz Army Contractor Rawalpindi’, 120cm x 124cm excluding the fringe.

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Dimensions: 120cm x 124cm excluding the fringe