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Cape

ca. 1775-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

This cape has been made from chintz dress material for use in Friesland, where it would have been worn indoors or in bed. The blue-and-white design is unusual but may be influenced by printed textiles from Alsace in the fourth quarter of the 18th century.


Object details

Categories
Clothing
Textiles
Accessories
Object type
Cape
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton chintz, lined with wool
Brief description
Cape of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, ca. 1775-1780
Physical description
Circular cape of painted and dyed cotton chintz. With a design in a half drop repeat of blue flowers and fruiting branches meandering from a cluster of blue flowerhead and foliage on a white ground. With two armholes. Lined with Dutch woollen fabric. With a narrow neckband with a hook at the throat.
Dimensions
  • Collar to hem length: 63cm
  • Repeat length: 13in
  • Repeat length: 33cm
  • Repeat width: 8.25in
  • Repeat width: 21cm
Credit line
Given by G. P. Baker
Production
Made on the Coromandel Coast for export to Europe; worn in Friesland, Netherlands.
Subject depicted
Floral Pattern
Summary
This cape has been made from chintz dress material for use in Friesland, where it would have been worn indoors or in bed. The blue-and-white design is unusual but may be influenced by printed textiles from Alsace in the fourth quarter of the 18th century.
Bibliographic references
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 60, p. 107
  • 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. 122, cat. no. 160, pl. 141
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.104-1950

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Record createdNovember 28, 2007
Record URL
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