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Unidentified

Floor Spread with Lotus Blossoms and Other Floral Motifs

18th century

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Unidentified

Floor Spread with Lotus Blossoms and Other Floral Motifs

18th century

Physical Qualities Cotton with silk and metal thread embroidery, Overall: 123 × 97 in. (312.4 × 246.4 cm.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 2023.215
The field is densely packed with rows of stylized lotus blossoms and other flowers in a lattice pattern within a series of four narrow and three wides bands of more stylized floral motifs.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2023; Sotheby's London, October 25, 2023, lot 130; Rare Elements, Concord, Mass., by purchase, early 2023; an unnamed New York based dealer, by purchase 2017; Christie’s South Kensington, (post sale offer?), 2017

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Unidentified

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

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