A £9,000 grant from the V&A Purchase fund, £5,000 from the Art Fund and £3,000 from the Friends of the Ashmolean enabled the museum to make the £22,000 acquisition.
An addition to the museum’s already substantial Indian textile collection, the hanging will contribute to the innovative new display strategy being undertaken in the Ashmolean’s redevelopment.
It is intended that visitors to the 39 new galleries on five floors will appreciate items as interrelated rather than in isolation and gain understanding of how different civilisations have shaped modern societies.
“This textile perfectly exemplifies the artistic and cultural exchanges which this new gallery is designed to explore,” said David Barrie, Director of the Art Fund.
The Art Fund has during the last two years provided the Ashmolean Museum with grants totalling over £100,000. Nationally, the charity has secured 860,000 works of art for UK collections since it was set up in 1903.
