Textile length
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Chintz: cotton tabby, painted, mordant-dyed, resist-dyed, glazed, gilded
Geography
Coastal southeast India for the European (Dutch or French) market
Date
1775-1799
Dimensions
144 x 110 cm
Object number
961.25.1
Department
Art & Culture: Global Fashion & Textiles
Description
A lattice design composed of diagonal, tapering chains of criss-crossing groups of wheat ears having; symmetrical clusters of flowers at the points of intersection; a small fruiting or flowering plant within each interstice formed by the lattice arrangement. The design is stylistically similar to French woodblock-printed cottons of the period.
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