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A DECORATIVE PATCHWORK OF INDIAN PICHHWAI HANGING SECTIONS WITH COWS AND FLOWERS AN EYE FOR DETAIL: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ESTATE IN NORTHERN LONDON Possibly Nathdwara, Rajasthan, North-Western India, mid to late 19th century Shaped as an arch, the hanging made of several joined strips and larger sections of hand-printed and painted cotton pichhwai, decorated with overlapping horizontal registers of large silver-painted rosette scrolls on red ground and groups of cows against a starry ochre yellow ground, framed within a band in-filled with floral meanders and large flowers heads on white and yellow grounds, lined in coarse red-dyed cotton, and mounted on a brown felt panel, 91.5cm x 83.5cm.
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A DECORATIVE PATCHWORK OF INDIAN PICHHWAI HANGING SECTIONS WITH COWS AND FLOWERS AN EYE FOR DETAIL: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ESTATE IN NORTHERN LONDON Possibly Nathdwara, Rajasthan, North-Western India, mid to late 19th century Shaped as an arch, the hanging made of several joined strips and larger sections of hand-printed and painted cotton pichhwai, decorated with overlapping horizontal registers of large silver-painted rosette scrolls on red ground and groups of cows against a starry ochre yellow ground, framed within a band in-filled with floral meanders and large flowers heads on white and yellow grounds, lined in coarse red-dyed cotton, and mounted on a brown felt panel, 91.5cm x 83.5cm.
