Textile Fragment
mid 17th century (made)
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The repeating design on this elegant fragment of cotton cloth was produced by the same techniques (hand-drawn outline with resist-dyed and mordant-dyed colours) used for the chintzes made on the Coromandel Coast of South-East India and exported to Europe from the 17th-century onwards. This piece, however, was made for local use, probably at the court of Golconda or one of the other Deccani sultanates. Fabrics such as this could have been used for garments or furnishings, and a large section of a floorspread survives (in the Philadelphia Museum of Art) which uses this fabric as its outer border. The Philadelphia piece is significant because it bears ink stock-taking inscriptions on its reverse which state that the floorspread was in use by 1689, and this date can be used as a guide to dating this fragment too from that period .
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton, drawn and painted resist and mordants, dyed |
| Brief description | Fragment from a floor spead, mordant- and resist-dyed, South-East India, mid 17th century; Textiles |
| Physical description | Rectangular fragment of cotton cloth. Undyed ground with a repeating design of rows of staggered flowering plants in red, green, yellow and aubergine. The design is hand-drawn and resist- and mordant-dyed. |
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| Credit line | Given by Professor K.de B. Codrington |
| Object history | Given by K de B Codrington, former Keeper of the Indian Department at the V&A. |
| Production | Probably made on the Coromandel Coast (perhaps at Petaboli) for use at the Golconda or other Deccani courts. A floorspread using the same fabric is inscribed with the date 1689. |
| Summary | The repeating design on this elegant fragment of cotton cloth was produced by the same techniques (hand-drawn outline with resist-dyed and mordant-dyed colours) used for the chintzes made on the Coromandel Coast of South-East India and exported to Europe from the 17th-century onwards. This piece, however, was made for local use, probably at the court of Golconda or one of the other Deccani sultanates. Fabrics such as this could have been used for garments or furnishings, and a large section of a floorspread survives (in the Philadelphia Museum of Art) which uses this fabric as its outer border. The Philadelphia piece is significant because it bears ink stock-taking inscriptions on its reverse which state that the floorspread was in use by 1689, and this date can be used as a guide to dating this fragment too from that period . |
| Associated object | IM.58-1933 (Design) |
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| Accession number | Circ.344&A-1932 |
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| Record created | April 24, 2008 |
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