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SACHM L67/153

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Description

ObjectFormType: 

  • Dress

ObjectMaterialType: 

  • Cotton

ObjectTechniqueType: 

  • Dress

Colours: 

  • Yellow brown cloth with multi-coloured floral designs

DistinguishingFeatures: 

A dress made at the Cape of Indian cotton, generally known as chintz or calico. It has a continuous pattern of slender intertwined stems bearing leaves and flowers on a yellow-brown ground.

Inscriptions: 

None
TypeValueUnit
1 345.00

DimensionComment: 

Diameter at the waist is 300 mm, and 310 mm at the bodice.
History

ObjectAge: 

254 years 8 months ago

AgeComment: 

Colonial period/3rd quarter of the 18th century/1760-1770

MakerComment: 

Unknown maker. Probably made at the Cape of imported cloth from the Coromandel coast of India.

ProductionPlace: 

  • Cape of Good Hope

Provenance: 

The dress is from the collection of Mrs Marianne E. Pfeiffer. She discovered the dress neatly packed away in a box in an attic of their Cape family home, Timour Hall, in the early 1960s. The dress had been in the family for many years and were surmised to have been originally worn by Aletta Wilhelmina Deneys. Aletta was born in 1774 at Sadraspatnam on the Coromandel coast of India, where her father was Commander. He later became Acting Fiscal at the Cape. Here in 1793 she married Willem Jan Klerck.

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