Flora's Retinue: Poppy
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1891
name: label: Designer
content: Walter Crane, (English, 1845–1915)
label: Producer
content: John Wilson & Sons, (England, 1778–1816)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small square doily, fringed on all sides, with an ivory linen warp and an olive ground. A figure of a woman dressed as a poppy with and sitting on the stem of a large poppy, with the word POPPY in the upper left corner, all appearing in ivory on an olive ground. A set of six, the doilies would have been used on the table as part of a dessert service.
place: label: made in
content: Great Britain
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund and through gift of Mrs. Edward Stern
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1994-28-5
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Object Name
content: Doily
label: Type
content: Doily
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen warp, silk weft Technique: 4&1 satin damask
label: Dimensions
content: 18 x 18 cm (7 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.) fringed on all sides