Bed Cover, anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1720
painted and printed cotton (chintz), l 260.0cm × w 248.0cm More details
The Amsterdam city coat of arms is painted in the centre and four corners of this bedspread: an oval shield with three crosses. This is the only known chintz cover with a city’s coat of arms. The earliest mention of an armorial chintz dates from 1614, when the Dutchman Wemmer van Berchem sent a batch of chintzes from the Coromandel Coast to Pieter Both, Governor-General of the VOC in Batavia. The fabric was decorated with Both’s coat of arms.
