Selected South Asia Holdings

Selected South Asia Holdings

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Research in Progress Hanging with part of one border cut out to shape it to coverlet use. Two large curving sprays with various large, carefully shaded flowers and large curving …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Red silk ground fabric pieced with red, yellow and blue cotton and embroidered with a design of stylized flowers and narrow borders.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Goddess


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Multicolored design of a man on a platform with musical instruments – drum and bells – with large urn of flowers and a bird. Design is repeated …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Yellow ground embroidered with a highly formalized floral pattern in magenta, white, blue, black, and beige silks and round pieces of mirrored glass. Fragment is rectangular with …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Semi-circular cape with a central square flanked by two wedge shapes and framed by multiple borders, all filled with a variety of fantastic and naturalistic birds, animals, …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Alternation of two floral columns.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Floral design with large exotic blooms in reds and blue, on a black speckled ground.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Kashmir shawl with a horizontal repeat of flowers flanked by elaborate interlace of decorated arabesques; twining flower sprays fill interstices; scrolling floral guard band with guard strip …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Bars and exotic organic shapes. Component A is five pieces pasted together.