Dress
18th century (made)
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Dress of painted and dyed cotton chintz. With a pattern of interlacing bands, resembling ribbon and strings of beads, with intertwining small flowers, foliage and rose sprays. Between them are bouquets tied with ribbon. The lower parts of the front are patched with a different chintz which has a repeat of zig zag patterned vertical bands and flower sprays. A third chintz form gussets at the sides.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted and dyed cotton chintz |
| Brief description | Dress of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, last quarter of 18th century |
| Physical description | Dress of painted and dyed cotton chintz. With a pattern of interlacing bands, resembling ribbon and strings of beads, with intertwining small flowers, foliage and rose sprays. Between them are bouquets tied with ribbon. The lower parts of the front are patched with a different chintz which has a repeat of zig zag patterned vertical bands and flower sprays. A third chintz form gussets at the sides. |
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| Credit line | Given by G. P. Baker |
| Object history | Exhibited Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927. |
| 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. 127, cat. no. 180, pls. 151b and 152a. |
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| Accession number | IS.17-1950 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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