Chintz

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Chintz is calico cloth printed with flowers and other devices in different colours, originally from India.

Chintz was originally a painted or stained calico produced in India and popular for bed covers, quilts and draperies, popular in Europe in 17th century and 18th century, where it was imported and later produced. Europeans at first produced reproductions of Indian designs, and later added original patterns. A well-known make was toile de Jouy, which was manufactured in Jouy, France between 1700 to 1843.

Modern chintz usually consists of bright patterns printed on a light background.

Chintz is also pottery covered with a dense, all-over pattern of flowers or, less often, other objects. The main firms making chintz——Grimwades (trade name Royal Winton), A.G. Richardson & Co. (trade name Crown Ducal), James Kent Ltd., Shelley Potteries Ltd., and Elijah Cotton Ltd. (trade name Lord Nelson)——were English and turned out a great variety of chintz dinnerware, teaware, and ornamental pieces mostly in the 1920s-50s.

[edit] Books on Ceramic Chintz

Susan Scott, The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Chintz, 3rd ed. Charlton Press, 1999.

Kelly L. Moran, Shelley Chintz: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books, Thaxted Cottage, 1999.

Jo Anne P. Welsh, Chintz Ceramics, 3rd ed., Schiffer Publishing, 2000.

The Chintz Collectors Handbook, Francis Joseph Publications, 1999.

Muriel M. Miller, Collecting Royal Winton Chintz, Francis Joseph Publications, 1996.

[edit] External links

• Pictures and description of Chintz
• An exhibition of calico and chintz at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Chintz room at Gatchina palace in Sankt Petersburg
• Chintz and other 20th century ceramics to explore online from Stoke-on-Trent Museums