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Textile

1766 (made)
Artist/Maker
Jean-Rodolphe Wetter (manufacturer)
Place of origin
France (made)

Textile of block-printed cotton with applied colour and finished by pencilling. With a design of four vertical repeating patterns of climbing and entwined greenery and roses. With some roses in full-flower and some in bud. The intervening spaces are scattered with dragonflies and beetles. Colours of green, red and cream on a pink ground. Bound with pink satin.

Object details

Category
Textiles
Object type
Textile
Materials and techniques
Block-printed cotton, bound with satin
Cotton
Block Printing
Brief description
Textile of block-printed cotton, made by Jean-Rodolphe Wetter, France, 1766
Physical description
Textile of block-printed cotton with applied colour and finished by pencilling. With a design of four vertical repeating patterns of climbing and entwined greenery and roses. With some roses in full-flower and some in bud. The intervening spaces are scattered with dragonflies and beetles. Colours of green, red and cream on a pink ground. Bound with pink satin.
Dimensions
  • Length: 299.7cm
  • Width: 148.6cm
  • Length: 118in
  • Width: 58.5in
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'DESSEIN n L206' (Stamped at the bottom of the fabric in black and enclosed in a thin black border)
  • 'MANUFACTURE . DE . J . R . WETTER . FT . SA / COMPAGNIE . A . ORANGE . BON . TIEN.1766' (Stamped in black at the bottom of the fabric and enclosed within a decorative black border)
  • 'H A n 6 .3' (Stamped in black at the bottom of the fabric)
  • 'A B' (Stamped at the bottom of the fabric in red and enclosed within a red box)
Production
Manufactured by Jean-Rodolphe Wetter whose manufactory was in Orange. It still retains its chef de piece which describes where made.
Subjects depicted
Roses
Butterflies
Dragon Flies
Bibliographic reference
Sarah Grant, Toiles de Jouy. French Printed Cottons, V&A Publishing, 2010, p. 19, Fig. 13 (detail).
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.199-1953

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O319268/textile-jean-rodolphe-wetter/
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