Tile Floor, Diane de Poitiers Bedroom, Château de Chaumont
date: label: Date
content: June 12, 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 plan view of a tiled floor with patterns of tiles in blue, white, yellow, and brick-red (in imitation of terra cotta). Above this are drawings of each of the eight different types of tiles. They include, from left to right: a blue fleur-de-lys on white ground; two of the letter D interlocked in blue on a white ground with blue corners; a version of the previous tile but only on a white ground with the letters rendered in golden yellow; a yellow Tudor rose with black center on a blue ground; three interlaced blue crescent moons (Borromean rings) with small yellow stars on white ground; one example each of a blue, brick red, and orange red tile.
place: label: made in
content: Loir-et-Cher, France
label: place depicted
content: Loir-et-Cher, 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: 1943-51-216
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, graphtie on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 32 x 24.8 cm (12 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.), irregular