id:			171386
accession number:	2014.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.20
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:01.625000

Chintz door curtain, 1800s. Iran, Isfahan, Qajar period (1779–1925). Cotton: plain weave; chintz; hand drawing and block printing: bleach, mordant, and dye; overall: 213.7 x 135.9 cm (84 1/8 x 53 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund 2014.20

title:				Chintz door curtain
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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			Sundry Purchase Fund
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culture:	Iran, Isfahan, Qajar period (1779–1925)
technique:	Cotton: plain weave; chintz; hand drawing and block printing: bleach, mordant, and dye
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 213.7 x 135.9 cm (84 1/8 x 53 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands
	opening date:   2014-07-09T04:00:00
	<i>Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 9, 2014-May 4, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Morita Antiques, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–2014
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2014–
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Lightweight white cotton cloth was transformed into this beautiful chintz, admired for its vibrant and durable colors, stunning pattern, fine quality, and rarity. Peacocks and a variety of birds appear amid vines with fanciful blossoms in the niche field and main border. Striking end borders feature blossoms in leaf-outlined diamonds on alternating ground colors of white, mustard, red, and blue. The complex chintz technique involving hand drawing, block printing, bleach, mordant, and dyes was developed in India. By the 1600s and 1700s, chintz was designed to target European and Asian markets and often featured large tree-of-life patterns. Chintz was also made in Iran by the 1400s, but this rare door curtain from the 1800s is among the oldest known examples.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 390-391, fig. 9.54
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