Women’s Words / Women’s Voices in the Kantha

Mason, Darielle

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Women’s Words / Women’s Voices in the Kantha

Niaz Zaman

Description: Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz...

Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

We tend to think that the kantha died out in Bangladesh until its revival in the mid–1980s, but this is not the case. Even when it was not a public object for display as it is today, the kantha continued...

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Niaz Zaman

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.115-137

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00323.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22916

Chapter subject tags:KanthasWomen, BengaliInscriptionsBangladesh--Social life and customsIndia--Civilization--British influences

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List of illustrations

The vastraharana scene from the Kantaji Temple by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Sujni kantha, detail with an elaborate Bangla inscription noting that Shrimati Manadasundari made the piece with her own hands for her father by Manadasundari
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Ashan kantha, detail by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Ashan kantha inscribed shrimati hajera khatun sang talukpara by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail inscribed with the name of the owner, Shri Samandari Das by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1900–1950
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail with an inscription noting that the owner of the kantha is Shri Hiralal Bandya[padhyay], as well as one stating that the world is ephemeral by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1875–1900
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail depicting Krishna, his legs crossed, playing the flute by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1850–1900
A bostani or gatri kantha juxtaposing motifs of a ratha and a mosque by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail depicting the deities Jagannatha, Balarama, and Subhadra by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1900–1950
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail showing the inscription across the ratha by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1900–1950
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail, the religious naming of god (Krisha, Hare, Rama) becomes the pattern of the entire quilt by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1900–1950
Kantha, detail with inscriptions in Bangla and English, including the word HauSE (upper right) by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), detail showing a multicolored tiger and a man in European dress by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1850–1900
Kantha depicting well-dressed gentlemen and women hugging peacocks by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
1800–1900
Sujni kantha showing Gajalakshmi, the goddess Lakshmi with elephants, surrounded by a circle of dancing girls by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Purnoshashi Saha drawing the center of a lotus in her alpana by Omar, Zaki
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Purnoshashi Saha filling out the lotus by Omar, Zaki
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Purnoshashi Saha's filled-out lotus, with dots and a kalasa (water pot) by Omar, Zaki
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown
Ashan kantha with a kalka tree, a fertility motif by Unknown
By John Carlson
on Sep 12
Unknown