Cover for a Jain Manuscript
c. 1800
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Cover for a Jain Manuscript, c. 1800. Western India, Gujarat. Silk: satin weave; embroidery, polychrome silk, gold filé, flat metal strip; overall: 26.4 x 13.7 cm (10 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1925.494
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: satin weave; embroidery, polychrome silk, gold filé, flat metal strip
- Medium
- silk, satin, weave, embroidery, polychrome, gold, filé, flat, metal, strip
- Dimensions
- Overall: 26.4 x 13.7 cm (10 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1925.494
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Needles, Dye-Pots, and Looms: Textile Traditions in India, Text and Image in Southern Asia (Indian Painting and Himalayan rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 242B Indian Painting
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