Petticoat
date: label: Date
content: 1700–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Petticoat of glazed chintz with a deep decorative border at the bottom in blue, violet, and shades of red on a white ground. The design is arranged to fit the bottom of the petticoat, and consists of a series of pointed arches made up of floral bands, rising to sharply pointed ovals of blossoms. Between points of arches appear jars of flowers. The arched spaces frame, alternately, clusters of various blooms, or crossed, sharply pointed curved flower bands.The bottom of the skirt is finished by a border 5 3/4 inches wide of small arches, reversed top and bottom, in blues, with red flowers on dotted red ground; intersected by a red band with floral decoration in blue or reserved in white.The painting of the arches is elaborate and a feathery effect is produced by a background of minute foliage forms in red, or dotted grounds of red, or feathery detail in black.
label: Description
content: In the open space above the border are detached sprays of natural size flowers, including tulips and roses.
label: Description
content: Lined with stiff white linen; one seam. At top set into waistband of green twill tape with tie cords at the side.
label: Description
content: The fabric was made in India, the petticoat was made in Europe, probably in The Netherlands.
place: label: made in
content: India for European market
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-188-1
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Petticoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: mordant and resist painted and dyed plain weave (chintz) Label: cotton, mordant and resist painted and dyed
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 96.5 x 160 cm (38 x 63 in.)