KUTCH, GUJARAT, WESTERN INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

In their catalogue of the embroideries in the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, John Irwin and Margaret Hall publish a very similar example to these two, which they describe as a table cover (Indian Embroideries, Ahmedabad, 1972, p.82, no.114). Whatever their purpose, this relatively homogenous group of textiles - embroidered with a roundel populated by naively-rendered figures and animals, were made in Kutch in the latter part of the 19th century. A further example from the Jon and Susan L. Huntington Collection was sold Christie's New York, 28 September 2022, lot 24.