Part of a Skirt (Ghagra)
1800s–early 1900s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Part of a Skirt (Ghagra), 1800s–early 1900s. Western India, Gujarat, Kachchh. Silk thread on silk ground, embroidery; overall: 75.6 x 46.4 cm (29 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1925.516
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- silk thread on silk ground, embroidery
- Medium
- silk, thread, ground, embroidery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 75.6 x 46.4 cm (29 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1925.516
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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