AN INDO-PERSIAN KALAMKARI CHILD’S QUILTED COT COVER
Possibly Deccan, Central India for the Iranian market, early 19th century

The fine white cotton ground printed, resist-dyed, and painted in dark indigo, madder red, ochre, manganese purple, and light blue with bold scrolling flowers surrounding a small lobed cartouche, the borders with scrolling flowers, the very outer border with a small cartouche with indistinct lettering and numbers, possibly a date, lined with monochrome block-printed calico, edged with bias-cut indigo cotton, 132cm x 83cm.