Cheney Brothers Silk furnishing fabric, Louis XVI style, 1913
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cheney Brothers silk furnishing fabric, Louis XVI style, 1913. Heavy jacquard-woven compound satin weave for use in upholstery. Pattern is a reproduction of a Rococo into Neo-Classical French fabric from a Marie Antoinette chair. Design features gold and tan musical instruments and wreaths in decorative C-scroll frames and foliate meanders on a pale blue satin ground. (W. 50 in., L. 36 in.) Possibly based on, but not a complete reproduction of, the silk designed by Phillippe de LaSalle for the bedroom of Marie Antoinette at Fontainebleu. Mfrs. #s: Com. 4294; No. 56538; Color 2926/1
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01052.000
label: catalog number
content: T01052.000
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: furnishing fabric
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content: fabric length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tcompound satin weave, jacquard-woven (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: light brown, golden yellow, light blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 50 in; 91.44 cm x 127 cm