Ladies of the Court

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Artist Unknown Indian

CultureIndian, Tamil Nadu

Titles

Ladies of the Court

Datec. 1635

MediumCotton, hand-painted, mordant-dyed, and resist-dyed (kalamkari)

DimensionsOverall: 66 3/4 × 274 1/4 in. (169.5 × 696.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Accessions Endowment

Object number2025.965

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

106M Lovett Gallery

Exposé

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

TEXTILES

Provenance[Probably commissioned for the Nayaka court, India, between 1640 and 1650] according to Rosemary Crill 2020, the commission was possibly for the court of King Tirumala Nayaka (r. 1623–1659)]; [private collection, France, by the mid-18th century; acquired in India by a member of a French aristocratic family, 18th century]; [Acquired by Berdj and Zareh Achdjian, 2012]; [sold to Galerie Achdjian, Paris, by 2014]; [John and Evelyn Kossak Foundation, New York, 2020]; [Entwistle Gallery, 2025]; purchased by MFAH, 2025
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Published References Rosemary Crill, “South Indian Court Scenes,” Hali 203 (Spring 2020): 62-69 Marika Sardar, Sultans of the South, MMA, p 148-161 “Decoding the Brooklyn Kalamkaris”, Archives of Asian Art, Apr 2020: 1-21 Sarah Fee, ed. Cloth that Changed the World: the Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019) Mattiebelle Gittinger, Master Dyers to the World, Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles (Washington, DC: The Textile Museum, 1982), pl. 104 John Guy, “A Ruler and His Courtesans Celebrate Vasantotsava: Courtly and Divine Love in a Nayaka Kalamkari”{, in Sultans of the South: Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 13231687 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) Anne Lise Seastrand, Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024) Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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