Bodice panel
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Roughly v-shaped front panel of bodice of fine white cotton cloth with painted and dyed design of variously decorated flower heads, pointed clusters of flowerets, and various leaf forms, on freely twining stems; in blue, red, green, yellow, with much reserved filling decoration. Remnants of accents of gold leaf on wax or gum base. Lined with white silk cloth; boned; buttons of self material down front center. Two fronts of a woman's bodice, with eight buttons made from the chintz; buttonholes worked in white.
label: Description
content: Design: Various flower heads on slender stems, largely in shades of blue with red centers; sprays of smaller flowers in red and blue; some yellow is left in two notched leaves of green. Much veining in flowers by wax resist. Outlines of larger flower heads show gold leaf and accents for petals and veining. Bodice front lined with white silks and boned.
place: label: made in
content: India
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-11-7
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Bodice panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant painted and dyed (chintz) on tabby weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31.2 x 39.3 cm (12 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.)