TWO PERSIAN BROCADED SILK LADY'S JACKETS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR
Qajar Iran, late 18th - early 19th century

Comprising a lady’s silk jacket of typical short, fitted form and pointed sleeves, finely brocaded in reds, white, and green silks and metallic threads with a floral double lattice pattern, the neck, armpits, side slits, and cuffs edged in black cotton, the blue kalamkari cotton lining now removed, the sleeves’ seams unstitched, 67cm long from the nape; and another similar, the gold ground brocaded with white cusped medallions in repeating grids containing small flowerheads, edged in bias-cut striped polychrome termeh cloth, the cuff lining with a diagonally-cut striped termeh shawl cloth, lined in Russian roller-printed polychrome cotton with butis and flowering arches on white ground, the left sleeve with a different Russian cotton lining of white ground, small brass buttons on the cuffs, with red silk crochet loops, the inner pockets of red cotton, later elbow patches of similar brocade, 61cm long from the nape.

Dimensions: the longest 67cm from the nape