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Wallpaper

1850-73 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of wallpaper with a flower pattern in light- and dark-pink, on a red ground; Design taken from a velvet of the period of Louis XIV; Flock on embossed paper.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Flock on embossed paper
Brief description
Specimen of wallpaper with a flower pattern in light- and dark-pink, on a red ground; Design based on a velvet of the period of Louis XIV; Designed by Paul Balin; Flock on embossed paper; Exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873; Produced by Paul Balin, Paris; 1850-1873.
Physical description
Specimen of wallpaper with a flower pattern in light- and dark-pink, on a red ground; Design taken from a velvet of the period of Louis XIV; Flock on embossed paper.
Dimensions
  • Height: 81.3cm
  • Width: 58.4cm
Dimensions from: Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Credit line
Given by Monsieur Paul Balin
Object history
Given by Monsieur Paul Balin.
Design based on a velvet of the period of Louis XIV, in the Cluny Museum, Paris.
This specimen was exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Production
Design based on a velvet of the period of Louis XIV, in the Cluny Museum, Paris.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Collection
Accession number
1350F-1874

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Record createdMarch 30, 2009
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