Lot 136

For the most part, in good condition but regrettably with areas of wear and loss to the weave across a band level with the peacocks and their tails (most visible in the catalogue photo). The most extensive and pronounced of these is at the centre of the body of the right-hand peacock (in which area there are also three small holes through the ground) and within the large leaf between this peacock and the right-hand edge. There are smaller areas of loss to the weave within the tail of the tail of left-hand peacock and the between this and the adjacent edge, and others smaller still scattered across this band generally.


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Another, slightly larger example of this hanging is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (acc. no. 1936-50-4).