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Category

Textiles

Date

1750 - 1767

Materials

Cotton, silk, gilt and beetle wing cases (elytra)

Measurements

1300 mm (L); 400 mm (W)

Place of origin

Mughal Empire

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Collection

Powis Castle and Garden, Powys

NT 1180735

Summary

Coat and sash in embroidered muslin, tailored from the sleeves, skirt and lappets of an 18th-century South Asian jama, unknown maker. Jama owned by Robert Clive (1725-74) and later worn as a coat, sash and waistcoat by Ella Rathborne, 5th Countess of Powis (1890-1988) in the 1950s.

Full description

The skirt portion and sleeves of an 18th-century jama (a style of garment worn by men in South Asia from the 16th to 19th centuries) in loosely woven white muslin with a repeating sprig in gilt foil, orange floss silk and beetle wing cases (elytra), reworked as a coat in Britain in the 1950s. The repeating pattern runs horizontally on the coat, as opposed to the vertical orientation on the less-substantially-altered waistcoat (NT 1180734). Further examination is needed to establish how and from what part of the jama the sash has been constructed. This jama is probably the one described on 30 April 1774 in an inventory of 'Jewels sent to Mr Cleaveland [Saville Row] with an Indian Dress': "Two short Jammas, Two long Do. One white with Gold Sprigs, a Gold sash, a White Do., Three long narrow pieces, One short broad Do. (To form into a Turban).” If so, the garment belonged to Robert Clive (1725-74) and was presumably acquired by Clive during the years he lived in South Asia (1744-53, 1755-60 and 1765-67). Clive certainly wore South Asian clothing, travelling in 1766 through what is now Bangladesh with a jama, pyjamas (trousers), turban, shawls and sash in his luggage. (Hazzard, p. 267). He also received sets of ceremonial robes from the rulers Mir Jafar (c. 1691-1765), Najmuddin Ali Khan (c. 1747-66) and Alamgir II (1699-1759). The white jama with gold sprigs described in the 1774 inventory was sent to the artist Benjamin West, along with other jamas owned by Clive (BL MSS Eur G37/84/6). Benjamin West (1737-1820), who never travelled to South Asia, may have used this clothing to inform his painting, ‘Shah 'Alam, Mughal Emperor (1759–1806), Conveying the Grant of the Diwani to Lord Clive, August 1765’, which is now at Powis Castle. (Dalrymple, p. xxviii-xxix). The jama was altered in the 1950s for Ella Rathborne, the 5th Countess of Powis from 1952-88, to create this coat and sash, and a waistcoat (NT 1180734). (Archer et al., p. 100). Rathborne was painted in the dress in c. 1954 (NT 1185518).

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Clive in South Asia and mentioned an inventory of his possessions, 1774. Thence by descent to Edward Henry Herbert, 5th Earl Powis. Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963 in lieu of tax and conveyed to National Trust ownership on 29th November 1963.

References

2019 Dalrymple: W Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, Bloomsbury 2019 Archer, Rowell and Skelton 1987 Mildred Archer, Christopher Rowell, and Robert Skelton, Treasures from India: The Clive Collection at Powis Castle, London, 1987 Hazzard 2023: Hazzard, Kieran, 'The Clives at Home: Self-Fashioning, Collecting and British India' in Coutu, Stobart and Lindfield (eds.), Politics and the English Country House, 1688-1800 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)

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