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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	India (made)

Textile of block-printed and painted cotton. With a floral pattern. The border has a continuous zig zag chain of flowers with a narrow wavy border of flower sprigs on a red ground below it. The upper part is filled with a repeating pattern of curving flower sprays reserving mirror wise in alternating rows. The colours of the flowers are also reversed. There are selvages along the top and bottom.

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Categories	Images Online Textiles SCRAN
Object type	Textile
Materials and techniques	Block-printed and painted cotton Cotton Block Printed
Brief description	Textile of block-printed and painted cotton, India, 18th century
Physical description	Textile of block-printed and painted cotton. With a floral pattern. The border has a continuous zig zag chain of flowers with a narrow wavy border of flower sprigs on a red ground below it. The upper part is filled with a repeating pattern of curving flower sprays reserving mirror wise in alternating rows. The colours of the flowers are also reversed. There are selvages along the top and bottom.
Dimensions	Length: 46.875in Length: 119cm Width: 43.75in Width: 111cm Repeat, upper part length: 17.375in Repeat, upper part length: 44cm Repeat, upper part width: 24.375in Repeat, upper part width: 62cm
Credit line	Given by G. P. Baker
Subject depicted	Flowers (Plants)
Bibliographic references	Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 80, p. 130 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. 113, cat. no. 120, pl. 107
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.54-1950

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Record created	January 16, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73115/textile-unknown/

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