Lot n° 49
Estimation :
10000 - 15000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 13 000EUR
Rare palampore with lily flowers, Coromandel Coast - Lot 49
Rare palampore with lily flowers, Coromandel Coast
Coromandel Coast, India for the French market, early
18th century, fine cotton canvas, painted and dyed
in black, madder red, plum, brown and indigo blue,
plum, brown and indigo blue. Decorated with a central
with a central rosette bristling with four fleurs-de-lis,
foliate scrolls and mantling in a frame of flowering vases
vases flanked by peacocks, the background strewn with
butterflies, peacocks, frogs and small mammals.
mammals. A border of flowering acanthus scrolls
punctuated with trophies and fleurs-de-lis in the spandrels.
Executed in India, this palampore combines elements
with the exotic fantasy of floral and animal motifs
and animal motifs of the Indian repertoire. The fleur-de-lys
denote a patron of the highest nobility, sufficiently
nobility, confident enough of the importance of his rank
to contravene the ban imposed by royal decree
(1686-1759) prohibiting the wearing, sale and manufacture of
indiennes, punishable by a sentence of galleys in the first case
in the first case, and hanging in the second.
Intended to protect the kingdom's silk factories, these
were not very effective, and made it even more
even more desirable and expensive than the fabrics prohibited
by the royal power, which the sailors of the Compagnie
of the Compagnie des Indes smuggled back to France, (fresh colors
(fresh colors, a few accidents and old restorations), 380 x 275 cm
To be compared with a small shawl in the V&A for the border and the
(V&A: T.173-1921).
Bibl.: Allemagne (H-R d'), La toile imprimée et les Indiennes de traite,
Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1942, second volume, this copy reproduced
pl. 216 and designated "Tenture fleurdelisée imprimée aux Indes pour la
Maison royale de France".
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