Parts of a Floorspread
mid 17th century-early 18th century (made)
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This fragment from a large cotton floorspread shows the classic Mughal floral design executed in the complex resist and mordant-dyeing technique which came to be known in Britain as 'chintz'. Other pieces from large floorspreads with the same design are in museums in Ahmedabad, Boston, New York and Berlin. The V&A also has a full-sized floorspread of the same design (IM 77-1938). It has been suggested that Mughal chintzes of this type were produced at the Deccani town of Burhanpur which was known as a centre of chintz-making.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Brief description | Parts of a floor spread, mordant- and resist-dyed cotton, possibly Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh, mid-17th to early 18th century; Textiles; Floor coverings |
| Physical description | Parts of a floor spread of mordant- and resist-dyed cotton with design of rows of standing poppies on an undyed field. Both fragments are made up of cut up rows sewn together, as evidenced by incomplete portions of the design at the seams. |
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| Gallery label | Part of a floorspread(2001) |
| Object history | The same pattern appears on fragments of cotton floorspreads held by the Metropolitan Museum (1982.239a and 1982.239b), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (66.866), the Calico Museum Ahemedabad, and Berlin. |
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| Summary | This fragment from a large cotton floorspread shows the classic Mughal floral design executed in the complex resist and mordant-dyeing technique which came to be known in Britain as 'chintz'. Other pieces from large floorspreads with the same design are in museums in Ahmedabad, Boston, New York and Berlin. The V&A also has a full-sized floorspread of the same design (IM 77-1938). It has been suggested that Mughal chintzes of this type were produced at the Deccani town of Burhanpur which was known as a centre of chintz-making. |
| Associated object | IM.77-1938 (Design) |
| Bibliographic reference | Skelton, Robert, et al, The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982
p. 89, cat. 226, Veronica Murphy
Vivek Gupta, ‘Splendour of the City: Nagarshobha’ in Roda Ahluwalia, ed. Reflections on Mughal Art & Culture, Niyogi Books/The K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 2021, pp. 230-253. See fig. 7, p. 241. |
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| Accession number | IM.69&A-1930 |
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| Record created | March 20, 2008 |
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