Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ceremonial Textile Decorated with Female Courtesans with Attendants and Parrots
- Date: late 14th–early 15th century
- Culture: India (Gujarat)
- Medium: Plain-weave cotton block print (mordant- and painted resist-dyed)
- Dimensions: 37 3/8 in. x 17 ft. 1 1/8 in. (95 x 521 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Printed
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift and Rogers Fund, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.256
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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