Curtains
date: label: Date
content: 1725–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Curtains are composed of several different kinds of chintz, in an elaborate arrangement of patchwork, sewn to a lining of white linen. Series of bands of different chintzes, forms a total design of baroque character, borders, corner motifs, and, when the curtains are edge to edge, a large central medallion. The bands are edged with cord, couched in red, which covers the seams.
label: Description
content: Chintzes are characterized by designs of small flower sprays, painted and with great elaboration of detail, in many contrasts of color.
label: Description
content: There is much overpainting as green on violet, one blue on another shade of the same, red over yellow to give orange, stripes of different colors in one blossom, all with great skill and delicacy of line. The leaves are sharply pointed and brightly colored. While many of the small flowers look deceptively like European blossoms, none are recognizable except a carnation. In one or two sections there are parts of a curious pattern showing narrow curving bands, one with jagged edges in red, one imbricated, red, blue, and yellow. While the ground of these chintzes is white, several of the appliqué bands are blue grounds.
label: Description
content: Formerly part of a set of bed hangings.
label: Description
content: Colors: Two reds, two greens, two blues, yellow, violet, orange (red over yellow).
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: 1968-79-3-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Curtains
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, linen Technique: patchwork of different plain weave fabrics which have been mordant and resist painted and dyed
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 280 x 88.9 cm (9 ft. 2 1/4 in. x 35 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 280 x 88.9 cm (9 ft. 2 1/4 in. x 35 in.)