Panel
late 17th century-early 18th century (made)
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TENT HANGING: Cotton, Painted, printed and dyed, Mughal, late 17th and early 18th century. Decorated cloth panels were used extensively in the interiors of the tents set up for rulers and their courts when they were outside the palaces hunting or campaigning. Several panels would be joined together to form moveable screens (qanats) to provide privacy around the rulers enclosures. Hangings and 'qanats' were also used inside palaces for decoration and to divide up large halls.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Block-printed, painted and resist-dyed cotton |
| Brief description | Tent hanging panel of block-printed, painted and wax-resist dyed cotton, India, late 17th century-early 18th century. |
| Physical description | Rectangular hanging panel of block-printed, painted and wax-resist dyed cotton. With a design of a lobed niche containing a large flowering plant with white iris- or lily-like flowers and green leaves emerging from a blue vase standing in a ribbed green and yellow bowl. Stems with purple poppy-like flowers emerge from the bowl. The field of the hanging is red. White flowers on scrolling stems are within the spandrels of the arch. Broad borders with scrolling stems and flowers in shades of red and purple against a green ground run across the top and bottom of the hanging. Possibly an interior hanging for a tent (Kanat). The panel is in two lengths sewn together. |
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| Gallery label | TENT HANGING: Cotton, Painted, printed and dyed, Mughal, late 17th and early 18th century. Decorated cloth panels were used extensively in the interiors of the tents set up for rulers and their courts when they were outside the palaces hunting or campaigning. Several panels would be joined together to form moveable screens (qanats) to provide privacy around the rulers enclosures. Hangings and 'qanats' were also used inside palaces for decoration and to divide up large halls.(Nehru Gallery 2001.) |
| Object history | Purchased for £30 from Nasli Heeramaneck in 1928. |
| Summary | TENT HANGING: Cotton, Painted, printed and dyed, Mughal, late 17th and early 18th century. Decorated cloth panels were used extensively in the interiors of the tents set up for rulers and their courts when they were outside the palaces hunting or campaigning. Several panels would be joined together to form moveable screens (qanats) to provide privacy around the rulers enclosures. Hangings and 'qanats' were also used inside palaces for decoration and to divide up large halls. |
| Associated object | IS.163-1950 (Version) |
| Bibliographic reference | 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. 33, fig. 22 |
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| Accession number | IM.29-1928 |
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| Record created | June 19, 2008 |
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