INDIA FOR THE DUTCH MARKET, COROMANDEL COAST, CIRCA 1720

This exceptionally beautiful fragment is very closely related to a fragmentary palampore that was sold in these Rooms, 11 October 2013, lot 620. It is possible that it could be a piece of the same palampore, however, unless the palampore had a mirrored design it seems more likely that it is a fragment from another palampore from the same workshop, perhaps even its pair. The sinuous, curvilinear drawing and charming details of the mongoose and the cockerel are particularly appealing and unusual. The depiction of the globular vase and elegant curvilinear treatment of the flowering tree relate closely to a palampore in the V&A Museum, London, published in Rosemary Crill, Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West, London, 2008, pl.9, p.43. For a related chintz which sold at Christie's South Kensington, 13 October 1999, see Oost-West Relaties in Textiel, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, SITS, 1987, cat. 49, p. 82.