Dress Fabric
18th century (made)
Fragment of cotton, with a chain pattern, knotted at intervals, and intertwining with a flower and leaf meander, crosses a group of narrow stripes.
Object details
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Object type | |
Materials and techniques | painted and dyed cotton |
Brief description | painted cotton, 1700s, East Indian; On a card with T.307-1919 |
Physical description | Fragment of cotton, with a chain pattern, knotted at intervals, and intertwining with a flower and leaf meander, crosses a group of narrow stripes. |
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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. 127, cat. no. 182 |
Collection | |
Accession number | T.308-1919 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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