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ca. 1825 (made)
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Textile fragment from a hanging of painted, dyed and tinsel printed cotton. Patterned with an ogival trellis and each compartment encloses two pairs of gopis confronting each other under a flowering tree, coloured red, purple and undyed natural cotton, gold and silver on an indigo blue ground. The compartments are framed by borders of continuous scrolling stems and flowerheads in red, blue-green and gold on a silver ground with a red, blue and gold rosette at each intersection. A broad border of elaborated continuous scrolling stems, foliage and flowerheads with a parrot at the top and bottom of each loop in blue-green and red with gold and yellow on a silver ground, enclosing the design framed with guard borders with stem and flowerhead motif similar to the ogival compartments, but on a yellow ground.
Decreasing area between the top of the ogival trellis and the border is patterned a winged celestial musician, two birds and a rosette, facing towards the centre of the hanging on either side in blue, gold and silver on a red ground.
Decreasing area between the top of the ogival trellis and the border is patterned a winged celestial musician, two birds and a rosette, facing towards the centre of the hanging on either side in blue, gold and silver on a red ground.
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Materials and techniques | Painted, dyed and tinsel printed cotton |
Brief description | Textile fragment from a hanging of painted, dyed and tinsel printed cotton, Burhanpur, ca. 1825 |
Physical description | Textile fragment from a hanging of painted, dyed and tinsel printed cotton. Patterned with an ogival trellis and each compartment encloses two pairs of gopis confronting each other under a flowering tree, coloured red, purple and undyed natural cotton, gold and silver on an indigo blue ground. The compartments are framed by borders of continuous scrolling stems and flowerheads in red, blue-green and gold on a silver ground with a red, blue and gold rosette at each intersection. A broad border of elaborated continuous scrolling stems, foliage and flowerheads with a parrot at the top and bottom of each loop in blue-green and red with gold and yellow on a silver ground, enclosing the design framed with guard borders with stem and flowerhead motif similar to the ogival compartments, but on a yellow ground. Decreasing area between the top of the ogival trellis and the border is patterned a winged celestial musician, two birds and a rosette, facing towards the centre of the hanging on either side in blue, gold and silver on a red ground. |
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Accession number | IS.26-1983 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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