Sash (Patka) (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

late 17th-early 18th century
Indian
dyed and undyed silk, dyed cotton, silver and gilded-silver foil wrapped around a silk core
North or West India, perhaps Delhi or Ahmedabad,, India
Overall: 99 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (252.1 × 49.53 cm)
68.8.155
Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Paul Mellon
Dye, Joseph M. The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. London: Philipp Wilson, 2001. (cat. no. 214, pp. 450-451, 534-536)

Joseph M. Dye III, "On Exhibit Royal India Textiles at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond," Veranda magazine, Vol. XII, No. 2, Summer 1998, p. 84, color ill. p. 86.
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