Collage of cigar bands forming a mosaic of a peacock and chicks, Dutch, mid-20th century

Product Description

Relief collage composed of paper cigar bands

paper on board, framed and with a chip-board backing.

Probably Netherlands, mid-20th century

610 x 563 mm

This extraordinary collage, made of many hundreds of paper cigar bands, forms a copy of a famous mosaic in the Lake Palace at Udaipur in India, a paper picture of which is stuck to the chip-board backing. The principal decorative elements are executed in low relief.