NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1860

Price Realised GBP 2,500

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GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

Closed: 18 Jun 2019

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A MOON SHAWL (CHANDAR)

NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1860

Price Realised GBP 2,500

Closed: 18 Jun 2019

Price Realised GBP 2,500

Closed: 18 Jun 2019

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Wool, the serrated central octagonal roundel with stylised floral mosaic, with conforming quarter corners, the field with simplified bent-tip boteh on a black ground, unrelated hashiyas (side borders)
63 x 54in. (160 x 137.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

The decoration of Kashmir moon shawls can be divided into two major groups. The first is distinguished by Kashmir vase-flower arrangements organised in stripes, while the second, as shown in the present shawl, is characterised by delicate set within a coloured field (Jack Cassin, "Chand-Dar: The Moon-Shawls of Kashmir" 3, 4 (1981), pp. 290-93, p.290). Like the Ottoman carpets that inspired them, moon shawls were largely produced according to Western stylistic demands and became particularly favoured by British and French ladies in the last quarter of the eighteenth century (Ryan Paveza, “Moon Shawl (Chand-Dar).” , vol. 34, no. 1, 2008, pp. 88–96, p.88). For a moon shawl with similarly intricate floral , see lot 5 in the present sale.

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