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Velvet panel for a balcony rail

Title	Velvet panel for a balcony rail
Publication Date:	1600-1648
Type	Document
Language	Hindi
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	558 mm x 872 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is Tx2
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	1600-1648
Notes	Velvet panel for a balcony rail. This silk panel is designed to hang over a balcony rail, showing the same image on either side: a row of flowering plants, drafted with careful naturalism. While this reflects court taste in seventeenth-century India, the textile structure reveals that it was produced in contemporary Safavid Iran, almost certainly for export to neighbouring India. According to an inventory note on the back, by February 1648, the panel was in the royal textile store (farrashkhana) in Amer fort in Jaipur, then ruled by Maharaja Jai Singh I (r. 1621-1667). Panel, silk velvet, designed to hang over a balcony rail, two matching designs of leafy flowering plants and curling clouds against cream ground, bordered with floral scollwork of tulips and narcissi, on the reverse are five dated inventory statements written in Hindi in Devanagari script (ranging between 1648 and 1666), recording the textile's size and valuation, added at the royal textile store (farrashkhana) at Amer Fort, Jaipur, India, produced in Iran for export to India, probably Isfahan, Iran, c. 1600-1648.
Materyal	Textile (material), Silk, Ink (material)
Nesne Adı	Textile (object name)
Yazı Tipi	Devanagari script

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Velvet panel for a balcony rail

Publication Date 1600-1648

Type Document

Language Hindi

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 558 mm x 872 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is Tx2

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 1600-1648

Notes Velvet panel for a balcony rail. This silk panel is designed to hang over a balcony rail, showing the same image on either side: a row of flowering plants, drafted with careful naturalism. While this reflects court taste in seventeenth-century India, the textile structure reveals that it was produced in contemporary Safavid Iran, almost certainly for export to neighbouring India. According to an inventory note on the back, by February 1648, the panel was in the royal textile store (farrashkhana) in Amer fort in Jaipur, then ruled by Maharaja Jai Singh I (r. 1621-1667). Panel, silk velvet, designed to hang over a balcony rail, two matching designs of leafy flowering plants and curling clouds against cream ground, bordered with floral scollwork of tulips and narcissi, on the reverse are five dated inventory statements written in Hindi in Devanagari script (ranging between 1648 and 1666), recording the textile's size and valuation, added at the royal textile store (farrashkhana) at Amer Fort, Jaipur, India, produced in Iran for export to India, probably Isfahan, Iran, c. 1600-1648.

Materyal Textile (material), Silk, Ink (material)

Nesne Adı Textile (object name)

Yazı Tipi Devanagari script