Bengal, India, 17th Century
A rare and fine Indo-Portuguese silk and cotton embroidery, the central pale-blue-beige-ground circular roundel with a peacock at the center surrounded by eight mermaids playing lutes amidst floral sprays within another band of running animals including deer, dogs, and hares, all set within a red-ground shaped and canted rectangular panel with blue ground corners, the red ground decorated with kneeling European figures, presumably hunters, on a dense ground of trees and flowers packed with a variety of birds and animals including boars, deer, peacocks, lions, deer and other birds, the blue-ground corners with figures confronting centaurs, the wide beige-ground outer border decorated with numerous animals running amidst leafy tree branches between hunter's with horns.
95in (242cm) x 76in (193cm)
Bengal, India, 17th Century
A rare and fine Indo-Portuguese silk and cotton embroidery, the central pale-blue-beige-ground circular roundel with a peacock at the center surrounded by eight mermaids playing lutes amidst floral sprays within another band of running animals including deer, dogs, and hares, all set within a red-ground shaped and canted rectangular panel with blue ground corners, the red ground decorated with kneeling European figures, presumably hunters, on a dense ground of trees and flowers packed with a variety of birds and animals including boars, deer, peacocks, lions, deer and other birds, the blue-ground corners with figures confronting centaurs, the wide beige-ground outer border decorated with numerous animals running amidst leafy tree branches between hunter's with horns.
95in (242cm) x 76in (193cm)
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