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painted cloth
Described as "Painted cloth". Synthetic dyes have been used to paint the brightly coloured cloth. There are male and female figures, fish, fruit and peacocks. As a result of the painting, the fabric h...
Phad painting
before 1979
A Phad painting of a landscape containing figures holding a decapitated head above a pot, and oxen pulling a carriage containing a female noble or deity with a crown. This is in a wide red border and...
Bazaar paintings of Calcutta; the style of Kalighat
Archer, W G (1907-1979); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)
1953
Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-17).
Letters from Rosemary Hunt to Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting
1965-1966
Two letters from the archaeologist Rosemary Hunt to Maurice de Sausmarez. The first is a handwritten airmail letter from the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem to Byam Shaw School of Drawing a...
Kalamkari
19th-early 21st Century
A panel of a hand painted fabric depicting cattle around a deity. Pichwai painting which would have hung as a back cloth in a temple. Framed with a silver metal surround and plastic glazing.
puppet
Puppet representing a young man, constructed with a padded wooden body, dressed with sari fabric scraps. He has almond painted eyes and jewellery painted on the left side of his face. The costume is ...
kalamkari
before 1979
A painting of a seated three headed goddess with four hands, sitting on a lotus flower above water, with a decorative border within a plain yellow border. The design is painted in blue, red and ochr...
kalamkari
mid to late 20th century
A kalamkari painted cloth in blue, yellow and red with brown outlines. Three figures in headdresses against a border of wheel shapes. The central figure in blue would be a deity, possibly the Hindu g...
puppet
Puppet of a female, with a wooden body and padding with decorated scrap pieces of sari fabric used for the clothes. Her face has almond eyes and jewellery painted in red on the left side of her face. ...
Indian floral patterns
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Victoria and Albert Museum
1985
Includes bibliographical references (page 14).
Ajrakh samples
Seven joined samples depicting types of Ajrakh resist block printing attached to paper descriptions, all samples are in browns or creams and have the same pattern of circles, stars and dots.
temple or shrine cloth
20th Century
A block printed temple or shrine cloth, known as a 'mata ni pachedi' (cloth of the Goddess Mother), in black on white, with a red base. An alternative name is "mata-no-chandarvo". The imagery is co...