A PRINTED COTTON HANGING (PALAMPORE), SOUTH EAST INDIA, COROMANDEL COAST, FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET, CIRCA 1800 |

dyed and printed cotton, with polychrome stylised foliate border, coat-of-arms featuring a horse standing on its back legs, within a crest surmounted by crown

Colours strong, some very minor fraying to external edges, minor tears, small stain near heraldic crest, the back with three small stitched cotton squares, as viewed.
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The coat-of-arms at the centre of this palampore indicates that it was commissioned for a European owner. As such textiles were particularly popular amidst Dutch patrons, it is possible that this is for where it was intended. A palampore also with a coat-of-arms at its centre is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no. IS.13-1976. For further examples see R. Crill, Indian textiles for the West, V&A Publishing, London, 2008.