General
General
A dress made of Indian cotton, more generally known as chintz or calico. The yellow-brown coloured chintz material has a hand printed floral pattern. The continuous pattern comprises slender intertwined stems bearing leaves and flowers on a yellow-brown ground. The dress is unlined, has a hand stitched bodice and skirt. The neckline is V-shaped. The skirt has an A-line. Indian chintz was a popular dress and upholstery material during the 18th century. It was imported into the Netherlands by the Dutch East India Company and should have been readily available at the Cape.
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.
Description
Description
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.
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