Palampore
late 18th century (made)
| Place of origin |
A serpentine tree, with a bamboo growing beside it, bearing stylised peonies and lilies, a rose, and two fanciful flowers. The ground is filled with a vermicelli pattern and the tree grows from a formalised rockery. A united East India Company stamp appears in the upper left corner; elsewhere there is a letter B in a circle and two other undecipherable circular stamps.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | painted and dyed cotton.
The cloth is composed of two widths of cotton sewn together after painting. The light indigo blue has clearly been applied direct to the cloth by brush. |
| Brief description | Textiles, chintz, Masulipatam India, late 18th, early 19th century |
| Physical description | A serpentine tree, with a bamboo growing beside it, bearing stylised peonies and lilies, a rose, and two fanciful flowers. The ground is filled with a vermicelli pattern and the tree grows from a formalised rockery. A united East India Company stamp appears in the upper left corner; elsewhere there is a letter B in a circle and two other undecipherable circular stamps. |
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| Bibliographic reference | 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.87, cat. no. 48, pl. 46 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 341-1898 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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