Large rectangular cotton palampore (bed cover) with painted, printed, and dyed tree-of-life motif in red, blue, black, brown, yellow, and green. Sinuous tree branches with exotic flowers and birds emanating from rocky mound. Mound is home to deer, tigers, other creatures. Inner border of undulating vine. Surrounded on all sides by small by pineapple-like motifs. Larger border of flowered swags and beribboned tassels [reflects a decidedly late eighteenth century European aesthetic seen in a variety of decorative arts media.] Outermost edges have hillock motifs. The palampore has a vermiculated ground in orange/brown. The palampore bears the stamp of the British United East India Company used between the 1820s and 1850s.