{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O480707"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O480707/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2021MW8689/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2021MW8689/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2021MW8689","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O480707/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O480707","accessionNumber":"4968(IS)","objectType":"Madras handkerchief","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Sooboo Chetty","id":"AUTH368929"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":"Weaver or master weaver according to orignal paper label attached to object"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"cotton (textile)","id":"AAT14067"}],"techniques":[{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"India Museum","id":"THES286062"},{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Connecting Threads Project","id":"THES381162"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2021MW8689"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES312466"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Handkerchiefs","id":"AAT216195"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Chennai","id":"x31964"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Tamil Nadu","id":"x29843"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"c.1855","earliest":"1850-01-01","latest":"1859-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'MADRAS PRODUCTS. / XXX. / No. 5 / Piece of Handkerchief, / value Rs. 10-0-0 (Ten), manufactured in MADRAS, by SOOBOO CHETTY, property of the H.E.I.C. [Honorable East India Company] / R 248'.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Original paper label attached to object"}],"objectHistory":"Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. India Museum Slip book entry: 'Cotton Kerchiefs / Madras / 55 / Head & Shoulders'.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Length of cotton handkerchiefs, white, red, and blue checks, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, c.1855","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":"AUTH384585"},"details":"","free":"Entry in the catalogue of the <i>Madras Central Committee for the Universal Exhibition to Be Held at Paris in 1855.</i> College of Fort St. George, 1855: \n\nIndex Number: 448 / Progressive Number: XXX. / Number of Articles: 1 / Name of Article: Pieces of Madras Handekrchieves, each piece containing 8 Handkerchieves ... / Quantity and Number: .. / 8 / Name of the Locacility in the Madras Presidency where produced: Madras / Name of the Maker or the Merchant from whom purchased: Ordered by the Committee to be purchased through E. Lecot, Esq., Manufactured at Madras by Sooboo Chetty / To whom belonging, by whom exhibited and how to be disposed of after the Exhibition: Do. [H.E.I.C.] / Price at which procurable, per Rs.-A.-P.:  each piece 10 Rs.; Rs.80-0-0 / No. of the Case in which Packed: No.21. / In what Vessel shipped: Do. do. do. [Shipped per <i>Gratitude</i>]'\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["4968(IS)"],"accessionNumberNum":"4968","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"India Museum Catalogue (IS) Number","id":"THES52550"},"number":"924"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-25","availableToBook":true}}