Bed Curtain
ca. 1750 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Bed curtain (Palampore) formed of a portion of a bed spread of cotton chintz drawn and painted by hand in dye colours. Lower half of a bed spread. To one side is a mound of imbricated rockery on which are peacocks, deer and vases of flowers. From its summit grows a tree with widely spreading branches of flowers and leaves reaching up to a half medallion of radiating flowering branches. Wide border with repetitions of diagonally disposed flowering branches.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Painted cotton chintz |
| Brief description | Bed curtain (Palampore) of painted cotton chintz, made by the East India Company, Machilipatnam, ca. 1750 |
| Physical description | Bed curtain (Palampore) formed of a portion of a bed spread of cotton chintz drawn and painted by hand in dye colours. Lower half of a bed spread. To one side is a mound of imbricated rockery on which are peacocks, deer and vases of flowers. From its summit grows a tree with widely spreading branches of flowers and leaves reaching up to a half medallion of radiating flowering branches. Wide border with repetitions of diagonally disposed flowering branches. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'V / E I / C' [each letter is inside a diamond within a crossed diamond] (Factory mark on the back ) |
| Credit line | Given by Brigadier-General James Dallas, C.B., C.M.G. |
| 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. 86, cat. no. 45. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.45-1925 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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