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Pontoise

Wallpaper
1979 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of wallpaper with 'Pontoise' design; Colour print on paper.

Within Collection Zuber French Wallpapers & Fabrics, a pattern book containing 115 specimens (E.625-739-1979), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; several papers shown in photographs interleaved throughout the volume; full bound in cloth-covered boards, with title etc on the front.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Pontoise (manufacturer's title)
  • Collection Zuber French Wallpapers & Fabrics (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Colour print on paper
Brief description
Specimen of wallpaper with 'Pontoise' design; Colour print on paper; Within 'Collection Zuber French Wallpapers & Fabrics', a pattern book containing 115 specimens (E.625-739-1979); Produced by Zuber & Cie for Cole & Son (Wallpapers) Ltd; France; 1979.
Physical description
Specimen of wallpaper with 'Pontoise' design; Colour print on paper.

Within Collection Zuber French Wallpapers & Fabrics, a pattern book containing 115 specimens (E.625-739-1979), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; several papers shown in photographs interleaved throughout the volume; full bound in cloth-covered boards, with title etc on the front.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 41.2cm
  • Size of volume width: 45.8cm
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.
Marks and inscriptions
(Title, serial number etc in letterpress on the back.)
Credit line
Given by Cole & Son (Wallpapers) Ltd
Object history
Given by Cole & Son (Wallpapers) Ltd.
Production
There is a letterpress price list in a transparent envelope at the front of the volume. There are 36 samples of matching fabrics. All but 6 of the fabrics were made in France; these are marked accordingly.
Associated objects
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
E.712-1979

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Record createdMay 29, 2009
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