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18th century · Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed) · Asian Art

Luxury painted cotton textiles expressly commissioned for the Siamese royal court constitute a specialized category of the Indian chintz trade. They include designs that closely follow Thai aesthetics—densely rendered decorative detail typically arranged in trellis-like lattice patterns that repeat across a central field. Here figures of the Hindu deity Brahma emanate from cartouches set within a trellis pattern of heavenly nymphs (apsara) and sandal-flower rosettes. Its intricate decorative detail was achieved by a series of repeat resist-dyeing processes that built up the pattern’s polychrome complexity. cat. no. 40

Artist

Unknown

Date

18th century

Medium

Cotton (painted resist and mordant, dyed)

Culture

India (Coromandel Coast), for the Thai market

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Huntington Norton, 1944