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: Top row: three flower boughs, numbered "1 to 3", white. A rough graphite sketch of a fourth one is at right. Second row: a bunch of carrots, a flower bough, a turnip plant, a fantastical plant, numbered "4to 7". Between "4" and "5" shown: "8", a turnip plant. Third row: "9", and a small flower bough crossed yb another one, two small flower boughs, 14 and 11 respectively, a leaf bough, "13", two bunches of flowers, "10" and "12". Fourth row: flower boughs, numbered "15" to "19". Fifth row: a bushy bough "24", two leaf boughs, "23" and "22", a bough with buds and leaves, "21", leaf boughs "20". Bottom row: a small bough and an unfinished one. Written in ink, top left: "tout menace, si en veut."
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: 1920-36-70
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: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)