Tile Floor of Chapel, Blois
date: label: Date
content: June 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet illustrating tile floor pattern from Chapel at Château de Blois. Many of the tiles here are the same as those seen in 1943-51-212, the drawing of the tile floor near the altar in the same chapel. The majority of the tilework is brick red, possibly in imitation of terra cotta. At the top left is a group of nine white tiles with brown ornament. To the right of this is a row of three white tiles with green, yellow and brown quatrefoils, which is separated by one terra cotta tile, and then repeated. To the right of this is the beginning of what, one assumes, is another group of the nine white tiles seen at top left. Below this is a blue shield with three yellow fleurs-de-lys on a white ground which is created by nine tiles. Above and to the bottom left and right of the shield are yellow rosettes. At the ordinal points from this group of tiles are white tiles with a dark blue fleur-de-lys, although only the upper left corner tile like this has two small yellow dots on either side of the fleur-de-lys. The rest of the field of tiles surrounding this section are terra cotta tiles. To the left is a vertical repetition of the three white tiles with green, brown and yellow quatrefoils seen above. The scale is given at lower right.
place: label: made in
content: Blois, France
label: place depicted
content: Blois, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-213
objectType: label: Type
content: tiles
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31.6 x 24.7 cm (12 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.), irregular