Embroidery, made by Flora Avraham. India, 1867.
Colored threads; net fabric.
Embroidery, made by Flora Avraham in her youth. The ornamentations: a squirrel and a deer, a crown and flowers, numerals and the letters of the Latin alphabet. Embroidered on the bottom is the inscription "Flora Avraham 1867".
Flora Avraham (Sassoon) was born in India in 1856; in 1876, she married Shlomo David Sassoon. For a number of years after her husband's death in 1894, Flora managed the family textile company in Bombay and in 1901 moved to England. Passed away in England in 1936.
39X50 cm. in a 45X57 cm. frame. Fair-good condition. Stains. Not examined out of the frame. For additional details about Flora Avraham and the Sassoon family, see the article by John G. Rolland, "The Baghdad Community", from "Indian Jewry – Bnei Israel, Kutchinim, Baghdadim" edited by Orpah Salpak (Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1995), pp. 33-34.