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Banarsi Sari

Made in Benares (present-day Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

19th - mid- 20th century

Artist/maker unknown, India

Fuchsia, purple, blue, green, orange, and gold metallic silk supplementary weave
16 feet 6 inches × 3 feet 8 inches (502.9 × 111.8 cm)

Currently not on view

2012-55-12

Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Stella Kramrisch Fund for Indian and Himalayan Art, 2012

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