£ 550.00
176 x 122 cm // 5ft 9" x 4ft
SE Indian made for export to a Near East market
The waxed fabric comprises of a Cyprus tree design flanked by others. The motif being the likely contributor to the ubiquitous boteh or Paisley design. Tigers surmount on each side as protective entities in a design fusion of Indian and Near Eastern themes.
This piece seems only to have been served as a wall hanging and as such, incorporates its original waxed chintz finishing, which is something so often lost and un preserved as washed out with laundering.
Produced in the transitory period when free drawn mordant resist methods were being supplanted by a hand-drawn and block printing mix, as evidenced in this piece, employing both techniques.
• mid 19th C
Ref. 18318
