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Indian, Deccan Golconda

Court hanging (known as "Reynolds coverlet"), ca. 1640-1650

Description

Maker

Culture

Indian

Title

Court hanging (known as "Reynolds coverlet")

Year

ca. 1640-1650

Medium

Cotton plain weave, mordant and resist-dyed, hand painted, block-printed

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Dimensions

Length: 269.2 cm (106 inches)

Place

Deccan; Golconda

Type

Credit

Gift of the Glocester Heritage Society

Object Number

83.023

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Indian Art for the RISD Collection

August 23, 1985 - March 9, 1986

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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