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Jacket

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

Woman's jacket of painted and dyed cotton chintz with a red pattern with birds, insects and meandering flower sprays bearing blossoms on a white ground. Lined with blue-and-white striped linen.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Womenswear
Object type
Jacket
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton chintz, lined with linen
Brief description
Woman's jacket of painted and dyed cotton chintz, Coromandel Coast, ca. 1750
Physical description
Woman's jacket of painted and dyed cotton chintz with a red pattern with birds, insects and meandering flower sprays bearing blossoms on a white ground. Lined with blue-and-white striped linen.
Dimensions
  • Length: 33.25in
  • Width: 59.5in
  • Repeat length: 16in
  • Repeat length: 40.8cm
Gallery label
(03/10/2015-10/01/2016)
CHINTZ JACKET AND PETTICOAT

Clothing made of chintz - brightly patterned, dyed cotton - became popular in Britain and the Netherlands from the 1660s. The fashion reached its peak in the early 18th century. The relative cheapness of Indian fabrics meant that ordinary men and women could afford to wear chintz. The situation upset some who complained they could no longer tell a servant from her mistress.

Jacket and petticoat
Cotton, hand-drawn and dyed
Coromandel Coast, 1720-50
Given by G.P. Baker
V&A: IS.12,14-1950

Fichu
Cotton
England, 1730-69
Given by Mrs s.Walton
V&A: T.333·1980
Credit line
Given by G. P. Baker
Production
Made for the western market
Bibliographic references
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 74, p. 123
  • 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. 118, cat. no. 141, pl. 123
  • Crill, Rosemary, Arts of Asia, vol. 45, no. 5, September - October 2015, "The Fabric of India" Exhibition, p.77, pl. 23.
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.12-1950

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Record createdNovember 28, 2007
Record URL
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