Description
Want a green and blue pocket square? The striking Kalighat Horse has been recomposed with intermingling motifs in a classical style and vibrant colour palettes. They are available in small sizes that make beautiful neckerchiefs and pocket squares. You may also love to frame them as an artwork that adorns your walls.
House of Gharats Limited Edition Silk Scarf Collection is the perfect opportunity to indulge in wearing and gifting a piece of art. This makes for a Perfect ‘His & Her’ gift set. The collection is a custom illustrated artwork made with the finest silk twill in Italy.
Scroll down to read more about our inspirations and the artwork for this green and blue pocket square…
SIZE: 45×45 cm
Inspired by the lost art of Kalighat of 19th century Kolkata.
Inspiration
Kalighat paintings have participated in the emergence of Bengali identity in the colonial capital, in the face of increasing Europeanization of the city’s intellectual and cultural life.
Kalighat Horse
The striking Kalighat Horse has been recomposed with intermingling motifs in a classical style and vibrant colour palettes.
Feel Naughty
We have illustrated fifty naughty, hmm, knotty ways for you to tie the knot and create your style. Click here
All Wrapped Up
Your silk scarf will arrive in a delightful gift box with a story card, which makes it convenient to gift and store beautifully.
This collection is a custom illustrated artwork made with the finest silk twill in Italy.
Kalighat paintings originated in the 19th century Bengal, in the vicinity of Kali Temple in Kalighat, Kolkata, India. Calcutta was the capital of British India from 1833-1912. By the 1830s, artists had arrived in Calcutta from rural villages in Bengal and began to produce paintings that reflected the local history, mythology, customs and conflicts of a colonised society. As a popular art form, these artists are recognised for their use of brilliant colour, simplified images and swift brushstrokes that became the hallmark of Kalighat painting in the 19th and early 20th century. They became very popular and were carried back as mementoes to Britain, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and the United States.
Many world-renowned, modern Indian artists like Jamini Roy’s inventive style was derived from the Kalighat paintings consisting of lively, bold and sweeping brush strokes in spite of being trained in classical European painting style. English scholars and cultural figureheads in India including Sir Monier Monier-Williams and Lockwood Kipling amassed vast personal collections, which are now housed in the Bodleian Library and Victoria and Albert Museum respectively.
Kalighat paintings have participated in the emergence of Bengali identity in the colonial capital in the face of the increasing Europeanization of the city’s intellectual and cultural life. During this period, the British were altering their position from merchants vulnerable to the grace and protection of Indian sovereigns to monarchs of the territory. Anthropologist Milton Singer’s term “cosmopolitan folk culture” aptly describes these paintings.
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