Large, exotic flowers and curving stems in reds and blues on a red speckled background.
Credit: Gift of Josephine Howell
18th century
Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for three reds and purple applied by brush or pen; blue applied over resist; yellow over blue to create green; mordant for background spattered through a stencil; chintz on plain weave
1973-51-68-a,b
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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