Furnishing Fabric
ca. 1895 (made)
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Furnishing fabric sample oif printed cotton with a wide selvedge on the left hand side, with a design showing a repeating pattern of Crown Imperial lilies in pinks on a darker pink ground with a small subsidiary floral design in the same colouring.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed cotton |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric of printed cotton, designed by L. P. Butterfield, printed by Sir Thomas and Arthur Wardle Ltd, retailed by Liberty & Co., Great Britain, ca. 1895. |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric sample oif printed cotton with a wide selvedge on the left hand side, with a design showing a repeating pattern of Crown Imperial lilies in pinks on a darker pink ground with a small subsidiary floral design in the same colouring. |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss Mary Peerless |
| Object history | The Whiteworth Art Gallery has another example of this pattern printed on velveteen. The Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, has a dress silk, bought from Hirschwald's shop Hohenzoller Kanthaus, Berlin, in 1895 for 9Kr. The Textilemuseum, Krefeld, has an example bought from J S Henry, London, in April 1898. The Kunstindustrimuseet has an example bought from Hohenzoller Kanthaus, Berlin, in 1894. According to the exhibition catalogue for LIberty's '1875-1975', another specimen of this design has a label reading 'Liberty Art Fabrics'. |
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| Accession number | T.167-1979 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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