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Bed Curtain

ca. 1750 (made)

GarrIck bed. Textiles, curtains, cotton, painted, Masulipatam, c1750


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Interiors
Object type
Bed curtain
Brief description
GarrIck bed. Textiles, curtains, cotton, painted, Masulipatam, c1750
Credit line
Given by Lady Hardman
Object history
Palampore (Palang-posh) of cotton fabric,hand-painted in colours with a tree of life" design, previously outlined with a stencil." Description taken from "List of Works of Art acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum during the the Year 1906" London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p.3. "Stamped, on the back, with factory mark of the Honourable (United) East India Company- a lozenge-shaoed device containing the initials V.E.I.C." Information given in List of Works of Art acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum during the the Year 1906. London: Wyman and sons. p.3.

Given by Lady Hardman. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.
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. pp. 81-83, cat. no. 34, pl. 32 and 33
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
17-1906

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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