Peri
Furnishing Fabric
1870 (made)
1870 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This high quality woven silk was designed by Owen Jones and manufactured by the Spitalfields firm of Warners for soft furnishings. Owen Jones believed that good design could only come from the study of ancient patterns and published books on the Alhambra in Spain (1842) and the ‘Grammar of Ornament’ (1856), which celebrates designs taken from the architecture of different civilizations. ‘Peri’, the title of this silk design confirms its inspiration from Persian or Iranian decorative art and mythology. In 1860 a lavishly decorated volume of ‘Paradise and the Peri’ from Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance was published with chromolithographs by Owen Jones.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Peri (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk satin |
| Brief description | Furnishing fabric 'Peri' of brocaded silk satin, designed by Owen Jones, made by Warner and Sons, England, 1870 |
| Physical description | Furnishing fabric of brocaded silk satin. A black ground with a blue, red, green and yellow undulating scrolling foliage and stylized floral or lozenge motifs. |
| Credit line | Given by Warner and Sons Ltd |
| Summary | This high quality woven silk was designed by Owen Jones and manufactured by the Spitalfields firm of Warners for soft furnishings. Owen Jones believed that good design could only come from the study of ancient patterns and published books on the Alhambra in Spain (1842) and the ‘Grammar of Ornament’ (1856), which celebrates designs taken from the architecture of different civilizations. ‘Peri’, the title of this silk design confirms its inspiration from Persian or Iranian decorative art and mythology. In 1860 a lavishly decorated volume of ‘Paradise and the Peri’ from Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance was published with chromolithographs by Owen Jones. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.156-1972 |
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| Record created | September 24, 2007 |
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