Floral Chintz Quilt
The fine floral "chintz" fabric exported from India to Europe during the eighteenth-century was clearly prized enough by its nineteenth-century owners to be retained and preserved, its fragments tailored into irregularly sized patches. These have been carefully pieced together and then quilted, and subsequently set within the current blue broad quilted border. The current iteration of this textile was apparently used as a bed spread.
Artwork Details
- Title: Floral Chintz Quilt
- Date: ca. 1775, patched, quilted and reassembled in current form ca. 1875
- Culture: Indian, Coromandel Coast, for Western market
- Medium: Cotton, drawn and painted resist and mordant, dyed, silk trim.
- Dimensions: L. 74 x W. 76 inches
188 x 193 cm - Classification: Textiles-Painted and Printed
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926
- Object Number: 26.238.10
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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