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Jacket

18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Coromandel Coast (made)

Jacket of painted and dyed cotton. With a design of columns from which stem sprays of flowers. In shades of red, green, mauve and sepia on a white ground.

Object details

Categories
Textiles
Womenswear
Fashion
Object type
Jacket
Materials and techniques
Painted and dyed cotton
Brief description
Jacket of painted and dyed cotton, Coromandel Coast, last quarter of 18th century
Physical description
Jacket of painted and dyed cotton. With a design of columns from which stem sprays of flowers. In shades of red, green, mauve and sepia on a white ground.
Dimensions
  • Length: 33in
  • Width: 59in
  • Repeat length: 16.5in
  • Repeat length: 42cm
  • Repeat width: 11.5in
  • Repeat width: 30cm
  • Waist measured inside garment circumference: 80cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Bust (very low) measured inside garment circumference: 91cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Across back width: 29cm
  • Nape waist length: 31cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Nape hem length: 78cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Sleeve length underarm to cuff length: 28cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Sleeve length shoulder to cuff length: 44cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Cuff circumference: 24.5cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
Credit line
Given by G. P. Baker
Object history
Exhibited Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927
Bibliographic references
  • Crill, Rosemary, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008. Plate 85, p. 135
  • 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. 178, pl. 151a
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.11-1950

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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