"L'abreuvoir' (The Well)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1792
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huët, (French, 1745–1811)
label: Company
content: Oberkampf & Cie., (Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Several scenes, most involving water or drinking. Included are: village well with animals drinking, drinking outside a tavern and drinking as an accompaniement to dancing. In red on white.
place: label: made in
content: Jouy, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Estate of Josephine Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1987-85-4-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: Technique: Plain weave foundation. Printed (with a mordant for red) by engraved plate.
label: Dimensions
content: Warp: 212.5 (83 3/4in.). Weft(s-s): 96.5cm (38in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Pattern: Height of repeat and printing plate: 103cm (40 1/2in.) Designed so that motifs are complete when lengths sewn together as a half-drop.