Sari

43-12-72A

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Native Name Sari | Baluchari sari
Object Number 43-12-72A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian
Provenience India
Period 19th Century
Date Made Mid to Late 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Silk
Technique Brocade | Dyed | Woven
Iconography Floral | Human Figure | Bird | Buta | Boteh
Description

Wine-colored Baluchari sari made of silk brocaded with supplementary patterning wefts using a jacquard loom. Cream, yellow and wine-colored silk. Border all around; wide band at one end which includes conventionalized floral borders and eighty squares each showing a seated human figure holding a flower; crosswise bands of floral motifs.

Length 443 cm
Width 109 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Frances E. (Harry) Markoe, 1943

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