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Antique Bengal Kantha featuring a wild and asymmetrical scene with a small off-center mandala. It is full of various motifs from fish, horses, elephants, and people. The people can be seen in pairs stacked on top of one another, riding a horse and an elephant as well as inside a Vimana or flying palace. The whimsical borders add to the wonderful chaos as they completely shift from large floral symbols to rosettes and eventually to triangles in different sections.

Large Antique Kantha - 4’6 x 5'6

Antique large Bengali Kantha featuring a repeat field of flowering vines and curving lines as a backdrop to a small off-center mandala and large-scale floral forms. The addition of a peacock and a Vimana or flying palace adds some serious interest. The large-scale floral forms almost feel like fireworks exploding in the sky. The whole composition is flanked by richly rendered paisley or

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'1 x 7'11

large Antique Bengali Kantha featuring a repeat pattern of quatrefoils in a grid. It has a limited palette of various red and black threads on a plain white cotton ground which is subtle but intriguing. The stitching gets fuller and more saturated in the center and small pinwheel motifs have been added giving the piece a more traditional focal point. The patterning is broken in a section in which the inclusion of an elephant adds some interest.

Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 3'7 x 5'5

Antique rare Bengali Kantha referencing Ram or Rama who is one the most popular Hindu deities and likely intended as a mantra in

Rare Calligraphy "Ram" Kantha - 1'7 x 2'3

Antique Bengali narrative Kantha that tells a story over multiple scenes. It may display a classic folk story or something relevant to the maker. A variety of scenes of village life are showcased including collecting wood, making of chapathi, and a conflict where the participants are holding sticks or other weapons. A very intriguing piece that incorporates many varied scenes into a visually balanced whole.

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1'9 x 2'

Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'5 x 5'8

Large Antique Nakshi Kantha - 4'5 x 5'8

Bengali Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The central mandala is squished to one side by three elephants and one horse form. The top and bottom panels both feature a row of plant forms that blossom into birds. Soft red, blue, and yellow on a soft pink ground.

Pink Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'8 x 3'10

Antique Nakshi Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with three reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The panels feature an elephant, a person on horseback, and what appears to be a rendition of the British hunter motif. It is framed by an alternating rosette and leaf border reminiscent of the classical egg and dart style. At the four corners of the border is a single rosette.

Antique Circus Nakshi Kantha - 1'1 x 1'8

Antique pastel Kantha featuring a central mandala with pinwheels at its focal point as well as its four flanks. The patterning is a variation of different abstracted forms consistent in form as well as color with a limited palette of navy and red faded to soft pink on a white cotton ground. The consistency is slightly thrown by some moments where the original red has not faded packing a small punch. The red moments in combination with the pinwheels give this piece a hypnotic effect.

Antique Hypnotic Nakshi Kantha - 2'1 x 2'2

Antique Kantha featuring a central floral mandala with vegetal forms in each cornice. It has a limited palette of various red and black threads on plain white cotton ground. The red and black threads were likely harvested and reused from old clothing. A mixed border of local fish (Ilish) on the vertical and birds (Doyel) on the horizontal frame the whole. Look closely to notice two small birds in one cornice.

Antique Lotus Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'4

Bengali Kantha featuring a large central bouquet of flowers in a vase flanked by four smaller bouquets in vases. The leaves of the central bouquet are also interestingly rounded into pinwheel form. The outer border was taken from an old sari edge and reattached around the perimeter. The words

Bengali Script Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'8

Antique Kantha featuring a vibrant central lotus mandala on a colorful backdrop of abstracted forms and pinwheels. The pattern flares out from the center in a series of concentric squares with concave corners that make room for pinwheels on the diagonal. Great visual movement and energy appear to emanate outwards like a firework exploding in slow motion.

Concentric Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'

Antique Kantha featuring a detailed weblike central mandala flanked by four blossoming bouquet cornices. Each is similar yet distinctive and pokes and squishes the mandala distorting its form. The simple rendition is energized by colorful and vibrant leaf-like forms in red, blue, orange, and green cutting across the white cotton field at various angles. The whole is framed by a thin, red

Colorful Nakshi Kantha - 2' x 2'3

Antique Bengali Kantha featuring a field full of columns from pinwheels and floral meanders to zig zags and simple shapes. Crisply and meticulously rendered with a wide and vibrant color palette on a white cotton ground. Framed around the perimeter by mixed scroll borders of flower buds on the vertical and pinwheels on the horizontal.

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'11

This Three Elephant Kantha features a main panel with a central flower surrounded by organic flowering vines and free-flowing running stitches. The bottom panel has a lovely rendition of three elephants. Elephants are a very auspicious and potent symbol in local culture. They represent wisdom and strength as well as having regal and divine connotations dependent on the intention of the artisan.

Three Elephant Kantha - 2'9 x 3'9

This Durga & Kali Nakshi Kantha features a representation of Kali the Hindu goddess of power, time, change, creation, and destruction. Durga has transformed into Kali who has gone on a rampage destroying the universe. She is seen holding the decapitated head of Mahishasura while those around her calm her including Shiva who is underfoot.

Durga & Kali Nakshi Kantha - 18" x 17"

Antique Bengali hand embroidered Nakshi Kantha featuring feminine humans preparing for a wedding party atop a hand quilted off-white field

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1' x 1'

Antique Bengali Hand embroidered Islamic Nakshi Kantha Textile featuring ornate natural designs in orange, purple and green

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1'5 x 1'6

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1'9 x 3'2

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 1'9 x 3'2

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'8 x 3'2

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'8 x 3'2