Floral Chintz Quilt
Indian, Coromandel Coast, for Western market
Not on view
The fine floral "chintz" fabric exported from India to Europe during the eighteenth-century was clearly prized enough by its nineteenth-century owners to be retained and preserved, its fragments tailored into irregularly sized patches. These have been carefully pieced together and then quilted, and subsequently set within the current blue broad quilted border. The current iteration of this textile was apparently used as a bed spread.
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