RARE ELEPHANT PARADE CLOTH (JHUL) India, late 19th or early 20th century Beautiful embroidery entirely tapestried with gold and silver threads, embellished with sequins, the motifs in high relief, the first register decorated with a mirrored floral composition around a cypress tree and a band embroidered with tigers chasing antelopes, the upper register embroidered with a lattice of rosettes on a green silk ground, the borders decorated with a floral meander, the reverse lined with red cotton stamped with a weaver's mark in devanagari, tasselled border, frayed silk, good overall condition. Size: 192 x 237 cm (without border).

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