Palampore
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Center of painted cotton; lined with dark green glazed linen, and with wide border of green silk. Center made of two breadths of cotton, one of 15 inches, one of 19 1/2 inches, seamed;
label: Description
content: A repeat pattern, balanced, symmetrical; flower sprays and flowering vines, in formal enframents for paired confronted birds as peacocks with spread wings, squirrels, butterflies, flowers, fruit, and othe rbirds, and touches of plum color. Much inner detail in flowers. Birds about 3 1/2 inches, flower spray 5 1/2 inches.
label: Description
content: Colors: Two reds, blue, green, yellow, brown, plum color; black for stems and details.
label: Description
content: The additions of the lining, border of silk, and quilting were made in Europe.
place: label: made in
content: India
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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 through gift of Julia Hutchins Wolcott and various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1968-79-1
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Palampore
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Material: cotton, linen, silk Techinique: cotton is painted and resist dyed (chintz); quilted
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 161.9 × 149.9 cm (5 ft. 3 3/4 in. × 59 in.)