79. A large kalamkari panel depicting the Avatars of Vishnu (Dashavatara) South India, Coromandel Coast, perhaps Kalahasti, first half of the 20th Century of rectangular form, painted in polychrome with different versions of Vishnu to the top row and his ten Avatars below, including Kurma and Kalki 123 x 295 cm. The main centre for the manufacture of such panels was the town of Kalahasti on the Coromandel Coast, north of Madras. For further discussion and images of these textiles, see A. L. Dallapiccola, South Indian Paintings: a Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London 2010, pp. 262-277.