A JAIN HANGING PANEL
A JAIN HANGING PANEL

NORTH WESTERN INDIA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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A JAIN HANGING PANEL
NORTH WESTERN INDIA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments on cotton, the central panel with a seated jina under a torana, flanked by two whisk bearers and above two elephants either side of a lotus flower, the field equally divided into ten others panels inhabited by various beings, the upper register with two further seated jinas beneath a moon and a sun flanking a stylised face marked with an urna, the lower register ornate with regalia, with black borders, backed
4½ x 80¾in. (123 x 205cm.)

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