Recueil de differentes Fleurs de fantasie dans le gout chinois, Propres aux Manufacture d'étoffes de Soie et d'Indienne
Design
ca. 1760 (made)
ca. 1760 (made)
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This drawing is by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (born Lyon 1728 and died Lyon, France 1808) for a design print in Recueil de differentes Fleurs de fantasie dans le gout chinois, Propres aux Manufacture d'étoffes de Soie et d'Indienne (collection of various fantastic flowers in the chinese taste, useful for the manufacture of silk textiles and printed calico) published in London in 1760. One of the most influential designers of the second half of the eighteenth century, Pillement worked throughout Europe over his long and productive career. Similar umbrella-shaped flowers can be seen in other designs for textiles, embroidered onto silk, in woven silk design and on printed textiles.
Object details
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| Title | Recueil de differentes Fleurs de fantasie dans le gout chinois, Propres aux Manufacture d'étoffes de Soie et d'Indienne (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | black chalk with stumping on laid paper |
| Brief description | Drawing for a design print in Recueil de differentes Fleurs de Fantasie dans le gout chinois [...], pencil, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, England, ca. 1760 |
| Physical description | Drawing of fantastic flowers including two double-tiered umbrella-shaped blooms and a large and smaller flower in bud on an undulating branch that becomes a beaded ribbon on a rectangular piece of grey laid paper. |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'J.Pillement' (Handwritten signature in black chalk at bottom left of drawing.) |
| Production | Attribution note: Drawing for a design print published in Recueil de differentes Fleurs de fantasie dans le gout chinois, Propres aux Manufacture d'étoffes de Soie et d'Indienne, Paris, 1760. Production place note: Pillement worked in numerous European cities but was based in London 1754-1763. |
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| Summary | This drawing is by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (born Lyon 1728 and died Lyon, France 1808) for a design print in Recueil de differentes Fleurs de fantasie dans le gout chinois, Propres aux Manufacture d'étoffes de Soie et d'Indienne (collection of various fantastic flowers in the chinese taste, useful for the manufacture of silk textiles and printed calico) published in London in 1760. One of the most influential designers of the second half of the eighteenth century, Pillement worked throughout Europe over his long and productive career. Similar umbrella-shaped flowers can be seen in other designs for textiles, embroidered onto silk, in woven silk design and on printed textiles. |
| Bibliographic reference | Gordon-Smith, Maria. Pillement. Cracow: IRSA, 2006. 53 p. ill.30 pl. ISBN 8389831007. |
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| Accession number | E.286-2011 |
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| Record created | April 26, 2011 |
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