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Patka

late 18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Long and narrow sash (patka) or waistband in printed, painted and dyed cotton. With a plain field and a deep border at each end with a design of long pink flower sprays. Hand-painted in dye colours. With a horizontal row of eight repetitions of a plant bearing five red flowers and delicate poppy-like foliage. Above this are four narrow bands of wavy stems with flowers and borders the whole is a slightly broader band of the same undulating motive. In two shades of red, sage-green and black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed, painted and dyed cotton
Brief description
Man's sash (patka) or waistband in printed, painted and dyed cotton, probably made in Machilipatnam, late 18th century
Physical description
Long and narrow sash (patka) or waistband in printed, painted and dyed cotton. With a plain field and a deep border at each end with a design of long pink flower sprays. Hand-painted in dye colours. With a horizontal row of eight repetitions of a plant bearing five red flowers and delicate poppy-like foliage. Above this are four narrow bands of wavy stems with flowers and borders the whole is a slightly broader band of the same undulating motive. In two shades of red, sage-green and black.
Dimensions
  • Length: 134in
  • Width: 25in
Object history
RF 1922/7862
Production
Sashes of this type are sometimes attributed to Burhanpur
Bibliographic references
  • Irwin, John and Katherine Brett, Origins of Chintz, London, 1970. With a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ISBN 112900534. p. 111, cat. no. 111, pl. 102
  • The art of India and Pakistan, a commemorative catalogue of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8. Edited by Sir Leigh Ashton. London: Faber and Faber, [1950] p. 215, cat. no. 1024
Collection
Accession number
IM.87-1923

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Record createdSeptember 29, 2006
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