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Bed Spread

1770-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
East India Company (maker)
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

Bed spread (Palampore) of cotton chintz, painted and dyed. A flowering tree growing out of a rocky mound is shown at each end of the field,with deers and peacocks, converging on an elaborate circular floral design in the centre. The border is a loose meander of flowers and branches, and with stylised vases at each corner. In black, red, blue, green and manganese on a ground covered with a fine fern-frond motive in yellow.


Object details

Categories
Interiors
Textiles
Object type
Bed spread
Materials and techniques
Cotton chintz, painted and dyed
Brief description
Bed spread (Palampore) of painted and dyed cotton chintz, East India Company, Coromandel Coast, 1770-1790
Physical description
Bed spread (Palampore) of cotton chintz, painted and dyed. A flowering tree growing out of a rocky mound is shown at each end of the field,with deers and peacocks, converging on an elaborate circular floral design in the centre. The border is a loose meander of flowers and branches, and with stylised vases at each corner. In black, red, blue, green and manganese on a ground covered with a fine fern-frond motive in yellow.
Dimensions
  • Length: 316.5cm
  • Width: 224cm
  • Length: 128in
  • Width: 88in
  • Top edge width: 2235mm
  • Bottom edge width: 2277mm
  • Proper right length: 3145mm
  • Proper left length: 3175mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'V / E I / C' [each letter is inside a diamond within a crossed diamond] (Factory mark on the back in the corner, of United East India Company)
  • Small seal bearing two symbols (On the back, one symbol is the Tamil lettering 'ka')
Credit line
Given by Brigadier-General James Dallas, C.B.,C.M.G.
Object history
Given by Brigadier-General James Dallas, C.B., C.M.G.
Production
Made for the western market.
Bibliographic reference
Irwin, John and Katherine Brett, Origins of Chintz, London, 1970. With a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ISBN 112900534. p. 85, cat. no. 44, cl. pl. 5
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IM.43-1925

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Record createdAugust 4, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126862/bed-spread-east-india-company/
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