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Man's Angarkha (Outer Robe)

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Date: Late 18th or early 19th century
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced
Culture: India
Department: Textiles
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 248720

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Indian cotton weavers have been creating delicate, sheer textiles for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Elite men and women on the Indian subcontinent valued such fine, cotton muslin or mulmul —a specialty of Bengal that was made entirely by hand—for fashionable clothing.

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Credit line: Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund
Provenance: Villa Rosemaine, Toulon, France, from 2013 [according to personal correspondence from S. Liagre, May 2, 2019, purchased in an antique market in London; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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Object type: AAT300209261

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