Hanging decoration
Category
Decorative ornaments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Velvet, glass, metal, wood, paper, and rush
Measurements
1030 mm (W); 160 mm (Length)
Place of origin
India
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 31536.24
Summary
Ornately decorated Indian festival decoration, in three separate sections. The top section appears to be made of plant stems or rushes, fashioned into a round piece and bowed. Only one reed survives, wound with a thin cotton thread, and attached only at the right side to the cone and disc. The cone and disc are missing altogether on the left-hand side. Suspended at either end is a bell-shaped pompom, and a disc, that also appear at the bottom. All three pompoms present. They have two coloured tops in red foil and purple velvet, both decorated with gold embroidery and gold tinsel round the centre. The elongated sections are in very poor condition, showing construction detail from straw material, bound together with thin cotton to form the shape, then covered with thin paper. The backs are covered with a floral, textured paper and sprayed gold, then covered with gold ribbon, mainly missing. The front embroidery on the left-hand side has only one strip of embroidery, purple velvet embroidered in gold. The right-hand one has three strips of gold ribbon covering the gold paper back, and two strips of purple velvet with the gold embroidery. Poor condition. Overall colours pink and gold, and purple.