Quilted palampore for the Dutch market
This decorated textile, known as a palampore, is a distinctive type of dyed cotton textile produced on the Coromandel Coast of southeast India in the early 18th century. It typically served as a bedcover or wall hanging. It has painted designs mordanted and resist dyed in a technique known as kalamkari in India, and chintz in the West. It is richly decorated with a dense design of variegated floral elements that exhibits a hybrid amalgam of European and Indian design motifs within an overall composition whose organization mirrors carpet designs.
Artwork Details
- Title: Quilted palampore for the Dutch market
- Date: ca. 1720
- Culture: India, Coromandel Coast
- Medium: Quilted cotton, hand painted and resist-dyed
- Dimensions: 8 ft. 3 3/4 in. × 95 in. (253.4 × 241.3 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Painted and Dyed
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2026
- Object Number: 2026.237
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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