Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
Galleries : 132 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
Royal flag with sun symbol
-
Description
This radiant sun was the central emblem from a larger, probably triangular flag. It would have been carried in the processions of a Rajput ruler of solar ancestry (claiming descent from Surya the Sun god), such as the Maharana of Mewar.
-
Details
- Associated place
-
Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan (place of creation)Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Udaipur (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- crimson silk and cotton (mashru), with gesso and gold leaf
- Dimensions
-
with mount 63.5 x 65.5 cm (height x width)
62 x 60 cm (height x width)
- Material index
-
organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2001.
- Accession no.
- EA2001.172
Location
-
-
First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India
-
First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Galleries
Notice
Objects may have since been removed or replaced from a gallery. Click into an individual object record to confirm whether or not an object is currently on display. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis, so contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular Eastern Art object.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum