Palampore
ca. 1855 (made)
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Large palampore with small clump of bamboo at centre, on each side a slender flowering tree, all growing on a formal, scale-like hillock. The border filled with a formal garland. The yarn is machine spun, and the fabric woven on a power loom.
Object details
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| Brief description | Palampore, painted and dyed cotton, Machilipatnam, c.1855 |
| Physical description | Large palampore with small clump of bamboo at centre, on each side a slender flowering tree, all growing on a formal, scale-like hillock. The border filled with a formal garland. The yarn is machine spun, and the fabric woven on a power loom. |
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| Object history | Transferred from India Museum 1879. |
| 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. 89, cat. no. 58, pl. 56
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Plate 56
Palampore: painted and dyed cotton. Masulipatam or hinterland. Probably made at the time of the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1855.
Victoria and Albert Museum, acc. no. IS5473
(neg. no. 37070).
12 ft 8 in (386.2cm) x 9ft 5 1/2in (288.4cm).
Colours: 2 reds, violet, brown, 2 blues, yellow and black.
Outlines black and red. Overpainting for green.
In the centre, a small clump of bamboos with feathery foliage, and on each side a slender flowering tree, all growing on a formal, scale-like hillock. The border is filled with a formal garland, and around the outer edge is a narrow blue band. The yarn is machine-spun, and the fabric woven on a power-loom.
The piece was acquired at the same time as cat. nos. 55 and 56 and may have been commissioned in the same circumstances. |
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| Accession number | 5473(IS) |
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| Record created | February 2, 2016 |
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