Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots

India (Gujarat)

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The imagery on this textile is related to manuscript paintings in the western Indian Jain style, and this textile type probably originated as a temple hanging in a Jain context. The women represented may be celestial maidens of Indra’s Heaven, where the gods reside.

Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots, Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed), India (Gujarat)

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Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots, Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed), India (Gujarat)
Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots, Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed), India (Gujarat)
Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots, Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed), India (Gujarat)
Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots, Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed), India (Gujarat)

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