Sash with Poppies (Paithani Patka) | Yale University Art Gallery

late 17th or early 18th century

This sash is typical of the naturalistic floral ornamentation seen in Indian textiles of the seventeenth century, with the blossoms, leaves, and intertwined stems of each plant cluster, or buta, individually poised against the metallic ground.

Medium: Silk twill with gold brocading
Dimensions: 23 7/16 × 130 3/8 in. (59.6 × 331.2 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1937.5307
Geography: Paithan, Maharashtra, India
Culture: Indian
Period: Mughal dynasty (1526–1857)
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969) and Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977) Collection, 1936 ; Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 283, ill

Loretta N Staples, A Sense of Pattern: Textile Masterworks from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 32–33, no. 27, ill

The Kashmir Shawl, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975), 24, 27, 31, fig. 14

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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