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A FINE STRAW AND CHINTZ HAT
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A FINE STRAW AND CHINTZ HAT

18TH CENTURY

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A FINE STRAW AND CHINTZ HAT
18TH CENTURY
D-shaped chipstraw lined with a red chintz print and wrapping over to the brim
30 x 22in. (76 x 56cm.)
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Lot Essay

See: 'Modes en Miroir: La France et la Hollande au Temp des Lumieres,' Musee Galliera, 28 April-21 August 2005, p179 & 184 for a very similar example from the Fries Museum.

The V&A have a similarly cut piece of chintz hat lining in their collection; see 'Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West,' p106.

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