Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao)

India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market

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Luxury painted cotton textiles expressly commissioned for the Siamese royal court constitute a specialized category of the Indian chintz trade. They include designs that closely follow Thai aesthetics—densely rendered decorative detail typically arranged in trellis-like lattice patterns that repeat across a central field. Here figures of the Hindu deity Brahma emanate from cartouches set within a trellis pattern of heavenly nymphs (apsara) and sandal-flower rosettes. Its intricate decorative detail was achieved by a series of repeat resist-dyeing processes that built up the pattern’s polychrome complexity.
cat. no. 40

Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market

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Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market
Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market
Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market
Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market
Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market
Floor Covering or Hanging (Pha Kiao), Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed), India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market

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