Design for Embroidered Floral Motifs of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"
date: label: Date
content: 1785–1795
name: label: Designer
content: Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cards fastenedd together by bow knots form irregular lozenges. A standing bunch of feather leaves and a lilac bough, horizontally disposed, alternate in those of the first row. The lozenges of the second and fourth rows show two alternating floral designs in oblique strips. Flower garlands hang in the lozenges of the third row. Somewhat more than one repeat is shown. Squared with graphie in opposite direciton. Verso: blotter of a sketch of a design of small boughs in rows. Written in graphite, bottom left: "8 fleurs". Part of a listing as at the left edge.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-36-71
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and gouache on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.9 × 41 cm (12 3/16 × 16 1/8 in.)