A CHILD’S CEREMONIAL GREEN COAT
Lucknow, Awadh (Oudh), Northern India, second half 19th century

A CHILD’S CEREMONIAL GREEN COAT
Lucknow, Awadh (Oudh), Northern India, second half 19th century

The ground of twill-woven green wool worked in silver and gilt metallic threads with repeating small floral sprigs in couched filigree stitch, the hems, collar, cuffs, side seams, and shoulders elaborately worked with pairs of buti interspersed with floral motifs, the back with a large scale buti in symmetrical arrangement with stylised flowerheads pointing towards the waist, edged in bias-cut pink ribbon, hemmed in green bias-cut cotton band, lined in bright pink silk, with a toggle neck fastening, the cuffs narrowed, 80cm long from the nape.

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Dimensions: 80cm long from the nape