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Titel

Titel/Objekt

Ralli Brothers

Klassifikation (normiert)

Gattung: textile label

Inschrift/Wasserzeichen

Inschrift/Wappen/Marken

Transkription

Ralli Brothers Manchester.

Aufbewahrung/Standort

Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (normiert)

Delhi / The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art

Objektbeschreibung

On this textile label from the Ralli Brothers' company, Ram and Lakshman sit cross-legged in front of each other. They hold a bow and arrow and wear crowns. The image if framed with designs as is the part above Ram and Lakshman. (gs/sp) Colour information: Colour

Erhaltungszustand

torn

Kommentar

##explanatory comments/crosstagging: Among the first examples of bazaar art are the pictures accompanying bales of textiles to be sold, a practice that may have begun sometime in the 1860s or ‘70s. These pictures served as means of quickly distinguishing one manufacturer from another, with images presumably helping to overcome challenges of literacy and linguistic difference as the goods traveled from producer to wholesaler, retailer and consumer. These pictures often bore no connection to the products sold; for example mythological imagery was often used to identify one brand of textiles as against another. The British companies selling these goods presumably treated the images simply as ways of promoting their products, rather than as either expressions of their own beliefs, or as endorsements of the beliefs of their customers. (Arvind Rajagopal)(gs) ##explanatory comments/crosstagging: chromolithograph produced for Ralli Brothers, a trading company, shows the god-king Ram next to his brother Lakshman, much as if they were secular figures of equal rank out of a pack of playing cards, parlaying with each other. This ignores the convention of establishing the superiority of Ram as the elder brother and major avatar of Vishnu, by placing Ram at the center, and sometimes portraying Lakshman diminutively vis-à-vis Ram. The Mughal miniature style of portraiture draws attention to their interaction, but once again, without flagging any recognizable mythic encounter. Their foreshortened arrows clearly inadequate to their full-sized bows, they are looking at each other intently, hinting at a story we cannot immediately place within the known lore of Ramayans. (Arvind Rajagopal)(gs)

Maß-/Formatangaben

Format/Maße/Umfang/Dauer

H 15 cm, W 12 cm, portrait

Auflage/Druckzustand

Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis

Herstellung/Entstehung

Material/Technik

chromolithographs, paper (fiber product)

Auftrag

Publikation

Fund/Ausgrabung

Provenienz

Restaurierung

Sammlung Eingang

Ausstellung

Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung

Thema/Bildinhalt

Thema/Bildinhalt (GND)

Thema/Bildinhalt (normiert)

scripts (writing)

Rama

Lakshman

Bengali (language)

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Ralli Brothers

Literaturangabe

Masselos, Jim 2006. “A goddess for everyone: the mass production of divine images,” in Jackie Menzies, ed. Goddess Divine Energy. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales and Thames and Hudson. (gs)

Rajagopal, Arvind 2010. "The Commodity Image in the (Post) Colony" http://www.tasveergharindia.net/cmsdesk/essay/100/index_1.html (17.1.2011)(gs)

Rechte am Objekt

Aufnahmen/Reproduktionen

Rechtsstatus

In Copyright (InC) / Urheberrechtsschutz

Creditline

The Priya Paul Collection. Reproduced with kind permission of the collector. Copyrighted. Copyright with the original artists and publishers.