Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Shawl

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Costume and Textiles

Shawl

Decorated with embroidered floral border.

Made in Kashmir, India, Asia

c. 1774

Artist/maker unknown, India

Cotton plain weave with silk embroidery in satin, straight, and chain stitches
109 x 27 inches (276.9 x 68.6 cm)

Currently not on view

1960-142-1

Gift of Lydia D. Taylor, 1960

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The Fine Art of Textiles
This shawl is said to have been presented by Warren Hastings, the first British governor-general in India, to Mrs. Matilda Trotter as a wedding present on her marriage to Captain Trotter at Calcutta in 1774. Dilys E. Blum, from The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), p. 137.