Indian for the Thai market
Fragment of painted-and-dyed cotton, late 18th century
cotton
15 x 10 in.
POA
Further images
Fragment of an extremely fine painted-and-dyed cotton produced along the Coromandel Coast for the Siamese/Thai market. The red-ground border is finely pieced to the central green-ground fragment. Probably originally from...
Fragment of an extremely fine painted-and-dyed cotton produced along the Coromandel Coast for the Siamese/Thai market. The red-ground border is finely pieced to the central green-ground fragment. Probably originally from a phaa nung (skirt cloth)
Provenance
Collected in JapanLiterature
An identical cotton is in the V&A Museum (IS 40-1991), illustrated in John Guy, Woven Cargos: Indian Textiles in the East (1998), p. 133, pl. 176.
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