United English East India Company
Tree of Life with Swag and Tassel Border
1819-1859
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United English East India Company
Tree of Life with Swag and Tassel Border
1819-1859
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 122 x 85 in. (309.9 x 215.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund
Object Number
2007.310
Large rectangular cotton palampore (bed cover) with painted, printed, and dyed tree-of-life motif in red, blue, black, brown, yellow, and green. Sinuous tree branches with exotic flowers and birds emanating from rocky mound. Mound is home to deer, tigers, other creatures. Inner border of undulating vine. Surrounded on all sides by small by pineapple-like motifs. Larger border of flowered swags and beribboned tassels [reflects a decidedly late eighteenth century European aesthetic seen in a variety of decorative arts media.] Outermost edges have hillock motifs. The palampore has a vermiculated ground in orange/brown.
The palampore bears the stamp of the British United East India Company used between the 1820s and 1850s.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2007; Cora Ginsburg, LLD, New York; ex. private collection, ex. by purchase Jo Howell, Elinor Merrill, or Cora Ginsburg c. 1940-50
BMA Today, Summer 2009, p. 11, ill.
John Guy. Woven Cargoes: Indian Textiles in the East. NY: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Ink stamp of the English United East India Company. (This is the stamp on BMA 2007.310).
Britannica Online Encyclopedia. "East India Company". accessed 9/20/2007, http://www.britannica.com/eb/print?tocID=9031775&fullArticle=false
also"Indian Botanic Garden".
also "Business Organization."
The Magazine Antiques. "Winterthur's handpainted Indian export cottons." Linda Eaton.
Miller's Collecting Textiles. Patricia Frost. "Printed Textiles".
Information provided by Cora Ginsburg, , LLC
The Art of Textiles. Spink & Son, Ltd., 1989. Catalogue.
Baltimore Album Quilts, Dena Katzenberg, BMA, 1981.
Printed Textiles. Florence Montgomery.
TAI Gallery website
Meg Andrews website.
"Beaulieu's account of the technique of Indian cotton-painting, c. 1734", introduced and with a commentary by P.R. Schwartz. (from?)
Britannica Online Encyclopedia. "East India Company". accessed 9/20/2007, http://www.britannica.com/eb/print?tocID=9031775&fullArticle=false
also"Indian Botanic Garden".
also "Business Organization."
The Magazine Antiques. "Winterthur's handpainted Indian export cottons." Linda Eaton.
Miller's Collecting Textiles. Patricia Frost. "Printed Textiles".
Information provided by Cora Ginsburg, , LLC
The Art of Textiles. Spink & Son, Ltd., 1989. Catalogue.
Baltimore Album Quilts, Dena Katzenberg, BMA, 1981.
Printed Textiles. Florence Montgomery.
TAI Gallery website
Meg Andrews website.
"Beaulieu's account of the technique of Indian cotton-painting, c. 1734", introduced and with a commentary by P.R. Schwartz. (from?)
Inscribed: Stamped on reverse: "UIEC" [printed within divided circle] (The stamp of the British United East India Company used between the 1820s and 1850s). Photo of stamp in object file.
