1780
Fabric Sample
Polychrome Chinoiserie print, showing flower arrangement, incense burner, a scroll painting on a white ground. Shows the influence of the orient on decoration and dress design. Similar samples exist in the Cleveland Museum and the Mertropolitan Museum of Art. NYC. Mounted with a postcard showing a 17th C Chinese color print #B94, “Flower Arrangement, Incense Burner, Scroll painting, etc. from British Museum. Clouzot and Morris “Painted and Printed Fabrics, “ Plate LI, made at the famed Mauracture de Oberkampf at Jouy press, Versailles.
Provenance:
Nellie Gard for Elinor Merrell, 50 E. 57th ST, NYC
Construction Label:
Polychrome block print
1934T 1780.128
Polychrome Chinoiserie print, showing flower arrangement, incense burner, a scroll painting on a white ground. Shows the influence of the orient on decoration and dress design. Similar samples exist in the Cleveland Museum and the Mertropolitan Museum of Art. NYC. Mounted with a postcard showing a 17th C Chinese color print #B94, “Flower Arrangement, Incense Burner, Scroll painting, etc. from British Museum. Clouzot and Morris “Painted and Printed Fabrics, “ Plate LI, made at the famed Mauracture de Oberkampf at Jouy press, Versailles.
Provenance:
Nellie Gard for Elinor Merrell, 50 E. 57th ST, NYC
Construction Label:
Polychrome block print
1934T 1780.128