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Textile Panel

ca. 1640-1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

The panel was made up in Europe from pieces of a 17th-century hanging showing figures in Iranian-style dress of the type seen in chintzes made for the Golconda court. The shape of the panel suggests that it was used in Europe to decorate the back of a day-bed.

Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Textiles
Interiors
Object type
Textile panel
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton chintz stitched onto a cotton ground, outlined with couched silk
Brief description
Textile panel of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, ca. 1640-1650
Physical description
Irregularly shaped textile panel of painted and dyed cotton chintz stitched onto a cotton ground. The ground fabric is plain cotton onto which are stitched pieces cut from a 17th-century chintz hanging with human figures in windows, and an early 18th-century chintz with a floral design. The chintz fragments are outlined with couched silk in pale blue and cream. Probably used to upholster a bed-head.
Dimensions
  • Height: 98cm
  • Width: 126cm
  • Height: 38in
  • Width: 49.5in
Dimensions are maximum height and width. Taken from Origins of Chintz.
Gallery label
(0./08/2017)
APPLIQUÉ PANEL
Cotton, mordant- and resist-dyed, appliquéd onto cotton ground and embroidered with silk
Coromandel Coast, possibly for the Golconda court
Appliqué fabric
c. 1640-60
IS.16-1956
Given by N.H. Heeramaneck
This panel was made up in Europe in the 18th century from pieces of a 17th-century chintz hanging. The figures in Iranian-style dress are of the type seen in chintzes made for the Golconda court, one of the Islamic kingdoms of the Deccan. The shape of the panel suggests that it was used in Europe to decorate the back of a day-bed.
Credit line
Given by Mr Nasli M. Heeramaneck, Esq.
Object history
Formerly in the Heeramaneck collection.
Production
The panel was probably made up in Europe from pieces of two chintz hangings, one (with figures) of the 17th century and one (with flowers) of the early 18th century.
Subjects depicted
Figures
Windows
Summary
The panel was made up in Europe from pieces of a 17th-century hanging showing figures in Iranian-style dress of the type seen in chintzes made for the Golconda court. The shape of the panel suggests that it was used in Europe to decorate the back of a day-bed.
Bibliographic references
  • 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. 65, cat. no. 3, pl. 4a
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 30, p. 69
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.16-1956

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Record createdFebruary 22, 2006
Record URL
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