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Petticoat

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Petticoat of painted and dyed cotton chintz and with a floral design against a white ground. Drawstring waist. Vertically repeating large bouquets and small vases of flowers between flowering branches. The design fits within the selvage-to-selvage width of the cotton (96.5 cm).


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton chintz
Brief description
Petticoat of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, ca. 1750
Physical description
Petticoat of painted and dyed cotton chintz and with a floral design against a white ground. Drawstring waist. Vertically repeating large bouquets and small vases of flowers between flowering branches. The design fits within the selvage-to-selvage width of the cotton (96.5 cm).
Dimensions
  • Length: 103.5cm
  • Hem circumference: 377cm
  • Length: 40.75in
  • Length: 163.5cm
  • Width: 58.5in
  • Repeat length: 18.5in
  • Repeat length: 47cm
Credit line
Given by G. P. Baker
Production
Made for the Western market; probably worn in Holland.
Bibliographic references
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 79, p. 129
  • 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. 119, cat. no. 144, pl. 126
Collection
Accession number
IS.19-1950

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Record createdNovember 28, 2007
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