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ca. 1720 - ca. 1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

The design of this chintz fabric is derived from European woven silks of the 1720s.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Clothing
Interiors
Object type
Fragment
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton chintz
Cotton
Painted
Dyeing
Brief description
Textile fragment of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, ca. 1720-ca. 1730
Physical description
Textile fragment of painted and dyed cotton chintz dress or furnishing fabric. Design with a symmetrical arrangement of decorated palmettes on a red ground framed by white-ground flowered bands with scalloped edges suggesting lace. There are filler patterns and use of parti-colouring for the foliage.
Dimensions
  • Length: 48cm
  • Width: 51cm
  • Length: 18.875in
  • Width: 20in
  • Repeat length: 19in
  • Repeat length: 48.3cm
Credit line
Given by G. P. Baker
Production
Made for export to Europe
Subject depicted
Flowers
Summary
The design of this chintz fabric is derived from European woven silks of the 1720s.
Bibliographic references
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 65, p. 112
  • 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. 114, cat. no. 125, pl. 111
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.103-1950

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Record createdNovember 28, 2007
Record URL
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