A painted cotton tent panel fragment (qanat) Deccan, second half of the 17th Centuryof square form, the natural ground painted in polychrome with a large eight petalled rosette overlaid with floral interlace and lotuses surrounding a smaller central rosette, all on a ground of floral and foliate tendrils, mounted 112 x 111.5 cm.FootnotesProvenance Sotheby's, New York, The Heeramaneck Collection of Indian Sculpture, Paintings and Textiles, 2nd November 1988, lot 152A. The present lot likely formed part of a tent panel, known as a qanat. It is attributed to the Deccan region of India, known for the dyeing technique kalamkari. This complicated method of decoration involves multiple steps of dying and applying colour with a stylus (kalam). A tent panel with similar floral motifs, dated to the 18th Century, can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005.251). Another Deccani tent panel from the 17th Century is also in the same museum (31.82.1). For an example of a large Deccani tent canopy panel from the 18th Century sold at Christie's, see Property from the Collection of John Robert Alderman and the Late Dr. Mark Zebrowski, 26 May 2016, lot 14.
A painted cotton tent panel fragment (qanat) Deccan, second half of the 17th Centuryof square form, the natural ground painted in polychrome with a large eight petalled rosette overlaid with floral interlace and lotuses surrounding a smaller central rosette, all on a ground of floral and foliate tendrils, mounted 112 x 111.5 cm.FootnotesProvenance Sotheby's, New York, The Heeramaneck Collection of Indian Sculpture, Paintings and Textiles, 2nd November 1988, lot 152A. The present lot likely formed part of a tent panel, known as a qanat. It is attributed to the Deccan region of India, known for the dyeing technique kalamkari. This complicated method of decoration involves multiple steps of dying and applying colour with a stylus (kalam). A tent panel with similar floral motifs, dated to the 18th Century, can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005.251). Another Deccani tent panel from the 17th Century is also in the same museum (31.82.1). For an example of a large Deccani tent canopy panel from the 18th Century sold at Christie's, see Property from the Collection of John Robert Alderman and the Late Dr. Mark Zebrowski, 26 May 2016, lot 14.
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