Tile Floor, Château de Blois
date: label: Date
content: May 6, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet depicting a tile floor pattern in shades of blue, white and yellow. At the center is a large capital H in golden yellow on a blue ground made of four tiles, and radiating around this to form a square in the center are four small yellow quatrefoils at the cardinal points, and four tiles with golden yellow fleur-de-lys also on a blue ground at the ordinal points. This pattern is then surrounded by a blue and white diaper pattern with a tile at the ordinal points repeating the quatrefoil and fleur-de-lys motifs.
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: 1943-51-199
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 thick cream wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.), irregular