Medium: cotton Technique: painted with mordants and dyed on plain weave (chintz)
Dimensions:
Warp x Weft: 412 x 120.5 cm (162 3/16 x 47 7/16 in.)
Type:
printed, dyed & painted textiles
Textile
Made in:
India
Date:
ca. 1720–30
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
The design is a border pattern with the mordant for red painted on the cloth, then dyed, and accents of yellow hand painted.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, General Acquisitions Endowment, General Acquisition and Textile Funds, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, Pauline Cooper-Noyes, and Au Panier Fleuri Funds and through gifts of Mrs. John Innes Kane, L'Antiquaire, Inc., Anonymous Donor, Mrs. Cecil Sherman Baker, McMillen, Inc., Miss Elinor Merrell, J.P. Morgan, and through bequest of Mrs. Josephine Howell
