The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 10, 2026

Floor-length coat covered with heavily patterned red-pink and blue flowers, winding over the solid cream background. The flowers are detailed with fine rows of petals, radiating striations, checkered patterns, and organic patterns and connected to one another by fine lines sprouting tiny buds on either side. The opening of the coat shows a light-grey interior.

Man's Morning Coat

1700–1750

India, Mughal

cotton: tabby weave, resist-dyed (mordant resist and batik); applied gold leaf
Overall: 142 x 172 cm (55 7/8 x 67 11/16 in.)
Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1936.443
Location: Not on view

Description

Much of the Mughals’ wealth derived from the international export of textiles, which became increasingly fashionable throughout Europe and America during the 18th century. This garment was made in India for the aristocratic French market. The floral designs inspired by the southern Indian dyed fabrics known as palampore have been enlivened by labor-intensive gilding and burnishing.
  • Mounting three-dimensional garments and fashion is a sub-specialty within conservation. A custom-sized torso form was made to fit a waistcoat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection (35.142). This Man’s Morning Coat in Cleveland's collection, made of the same textile, was displayed on top of the Met’s waistcoat in the 2013 exhibition Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800.
  • ?–1936
    The Textile Arts Club, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1936–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. cat. no. 28, p. 35
    Peck, Amelia, and Amy Elizabeth Bogansky. Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. cat. no. 51A, pp. 203-204
  • Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
    Interwoven Globe: Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 10, 2013-January 2, 2014).
    Resist Dyed Textiles from India, Indonesia and Cambodia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22, 1993-March 27, 1995).
    Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984).
    Techniques of Textile Printing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 11, 1948-May 29, 1949).
  • {{cite web|title=Man's Morning Coat|url=false|author=|year=1700–1750|access-date=10 March 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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