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Unknown Maker, Indian

Court hanging (known as "Reynolds coverlet")

Maker

Unknown Maker, Indian

Culture

Indian

Title

Court hanging (known as "Reynolds coverlet")
Reynolds Coverlet

Year

ca. 1640-1650

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

cotton

Geography

Place Made: Deccan; Place Made: Golconda

Dimensions

Length: 269.2 cm (106 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Glocester Heritage Society

Object Number

83.023

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles
"Tapestries through the Ages"
Sep 22, 1989 – Nov 12, 1989
Indian Art for the RISD Collection
Aug 23, 1985 – Mar 09, 1986

Label copy

Featuring a design format similar to that of a pile carpet, this remarkable textile was probably used as a floor covering. The entire design is hand painted in mordants, a complicated and time-consuming dye process by which various colors are chemically fixed to the cotton fiber. Sources for the coverlet's imagery which includes well over 800 birds and animals but no trace of man, are hard to fix with with precision but the direct links with Iran maintained by the Qutb Shahi dynasty in Golconda seem to be a crucial factor.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Indian
Court hanging (known as "Reynolds coverlet"); Reynolds Coverlet, ca. 1640-1650
Cotton plain weave, mordant and resist-dyed, hand painted, block-printed
Length: 269.2 cm (106 inches)
Gift of the Glocester Heritage Society 83.023

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