Palampore, Medium: cotton Technique: mordant painted and resist-dyed (chintz) on plain weave, Half of a chintz palampore with scenic and floral elements in blue, green, drab, yellow and rose on a strong red ground. The piece has a deep border sewn by hand along the left and bottom edges. The designs of the field and border are related in color but are otherwise very different., The field shows a repeating pattern of three sceninc elements: Under a gnarled tree with flattened leaves appear two cranes, one perched on a pointed rock, one standing in a dark shallow pool. A second scene shows a bird (heron) crouched on a nest, in or near a pool or swamp of triangular shape, in which delicate plants and smaller herons are visible. From the air a bird swoops toward this pool. A third scene is not easily decipherable, a barred triangle shape, from which rise dotted oblongs, a long stem, ending in a lotus fruit, but looking more like a lantern on a pole. These different scenes are divided by b