The Half Moon and Seven Stars
Border
1804 (made)
1804 (made)
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Object Type
For the first 20 years of the 19th century the finest and most expensive printed furnishings were polychrome (multi-colour) woodblock-printed cottons. This example has been printed with a vertical design, suiting it for use as a border for curtains. In this period - the early 19th century - it was fashionable for the different furnishings used in a room, including window curtains and upholstery fabric, to match or complement each other. The textiles could be printed to shape to correspond to their function.
Design & Designing
The manufacturer's name for this design was 'The Half Moon and 7 Stars Furniture'. The distinctive colour scheme, a combination called 'pompeian', appeared as part of the fashion for Egyptian and classical styles in furnishings between about 1804 and 1809.
Places
Bannister Hall printworks, near Preston, Lancashire, was the leading printworks for wood-block furniture chintzes and set the fashion for other factories. London linen drapers such as Richard Ovey of Covent Garden (from 1790 to 1831 the leading London merchant for 'furniture prints') commissioned designs from skilled artists and sent them to Lancashire or to Carlisle in Cumbria to be printed for their London shops.
For the first 20 years of the 19th century the finest and most expensive printed furnishings were polychrome (multi-colour) woodblock-printed cottons. This example has been printed with a vertical design, suiting it for use as a border for curtains. In this period - the early 19th century - it was fashionable for the different furnishings used in a room, including window curtains and upholstery fabric, to match or complement each other. The textiles could be printed to shape to correspond to their function.
Design & Designing
The manufacturer's name for this design was 'The Half Moon and 7 Stars Furniture'. The distinctive colour scheme, a combination called 'pompeian', appeared as part of the fashion for Egyptian and classical styles in furnishings between about 1804 and 1809.
Places
Bannister Hall printworks, near Preston, Lancashire, was the leading printworks for wood-block furniture chintzes and set the fashion for other factories. London linen drapers such as Richard Ovey of Covent Garden (from 1790 to 1831 the leading London merchant for 'furniture prints') commissioned designs from skilled artists and sent them to Lancashire or to Carlisle in Cumbria to be printed for their London shops.
Object details
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| Title | The Half Moon and Seven Stars (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Block-printed cotton |
| Brief description | PRINTED BORDER for a furnishing fabric; the half moon and seven stars furniture |
| Physical description | Printed cotton; - The Half Moon and Seven Stars Furniture; block printed, pompeian style cotton (ie terracotta & black against a yellow ground); interlocking classical scrollwork pattern around framed tablets of classical images. The top of the fabric has a black lozenge with a crescent moon and seven stars framed by a a multi-band geometric border, hence the title. |
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| Gallery label | British Galleries:
Printed cotton borders such as this would have been used for curtains. The colour scheme was based on colours found in decorations excavated at Pompeii in Italy, as were the motifs of vases, scrolling foliage and 'painted' plaques.(27/03/2003) |
| Credit line | Given by Elinor Merrell |
| Object history | Printed at Bannister Hall printworks, Preston, Lancashire for the draper Richard Ovey, Covent Garden, London (active 1790-1831) |
| Summary | Object Type For the first 20 years of the 19th century the finest and most expensive printed furnishings were polychrome (multi-colour) woodblock-printed cottons. This example has been printed with a vertical design, suiting it for use as a border for curtains. In this period - the early 19th century - it was fashionable for the different furnishings used in a room, including window curtains and upholstery fabric, to match or complement each other. The textiles could be printed to shape to correspond to their function. Design & Designing The manufacturer's name for this design was 'The Half Moon and 7 Stars Furniture'. The distinctive colour scheme, a combination called 'pompeian', appeared as part of the fashion for Egyptian and classical styles in furnishings between about 1804 and 1809. Places Bannister Hall printworks, near Preston, Lancashire, was the leading printworks for wood-block furniture chintzes and set the fashion for other factories. London linen drapers such as Richard Ovey of Covent Garden (from 1790 to 1831 the leading London merchant for 'furniture prints') commissioned designs from skilled artists and sent them to Lancashire or to Carlisle in Cumbria to be printed for their London shops. |
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| Accession number | T.50-1956 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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