Research in Progress Wedge-shaped piece of fine firm cotton cloth with medium-scale design of stylized flower heads on top of grace-fully curving cornucopia forms decorated with graduated dots and a little sprig of blue berries. These forms are planned to curve left in one horizontal row and right in the next, and a serpentine band of the same reddish brown as the cornucopias underlays each vertical row so that an ogival ground plan accented with flower-heads is suggested. Shades of rose-red, blue, yellow and green (blue over yellow), violet; black and red outlines; gold leaf on wax or gum base outlining major parts of design. Lined with plain white silk. Z-spun cotton, 100-110 warps per inch. 1/8" selvages with coarser warps. No complete breadth.
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Date published
- 18th century
- Dates
- 18th century
- Format
- Medium: cotton; gold leaf on wax or gum base Technique: mordant painted and dyed with resist (chintz) on tabby weave
- Pages
- H x W: 40.6 x 59.7 cm (16 in. x 23 1/2 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 1902-1-974
- Rights
- Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/85a322e57eda2febe9cd2533118f3d66
