AN INDIAN CHINTZ COTTON HANGING
North India, mid to late 19th century

The two joined panels of cotton printed and painted, the central circular motif, the squinches, and the margins in madder red, manganese purple, teal blue, the centre field resist-dyed in pale turquoise blue, the field with delicate open floral sprays, the margins with flowering Mughal shrubs interspersed with parakeets holding floral sprays in their beaks, 292cm x 148cm.