AN INDO-PERSIAN HANGING Possibly Isfahan, Iran or Deccan, Central India, late 19th century The fine cotton ground printed and painted in blue, madder reds, and dark manganese purple within dark outlines with a stylised central cypress tree in-filled with floral stars and outlined with chevrons, a pair of regardant parrots at the top, with a hillocky ground in the style of Coromandel Coast Palampores, surrounded by large scale scrolling flowers, all within a prayer niche in red, beneath a row of five niches filled with floral arrangements, the outer corners of the main prayer niche printed with Sura 61 ( Saf ), Aya 13 ( with the help from God, victory is near) in nasta'liq script, 175cm x 106cm. (175cm x 106cm)