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Lot Essay
This tent panel, or kanat, is part of a well-known series of chintzes, examples of which are held by important museums world-wide. The largest, which forms the interior of a tent is to be found in the Tapi Collection in India.
The Mughal Imperial court was a peripatetic court which travelled regularly. The Court’s audience rooms, workshops and private apartments were all to be found under canvas, waterproof on the outside and hung with rich fabrics, velvets and chintzes of high quality inside. In this example, the brush strokes are broad and bold to impress petitioners from a distance, so is likely to have been destined for a public hall and were intended to make an impression on the Mughal emperor’s subjects.
The Mughal Imperial court was a peripatetic court which travelled regularly. The Court’s audience rooms, workshops and private apartments were all to be found under canvas, waterproof on the outside and hung with rich fabrics, velvets and chintzes of high quality inside. In this example, the brush strokes are broad and bold to impress petitioners from a distance, so is likely to have been destined for a public hall and were intended to make an impression on the Mughal emperor’s subjects.