Printed fabric (furnishing fabric)

Textile and Costume Collection

Accession Nr.: 7720
Artist/Maker:
Duco Crop, Michel (1863 - 1901) / designer
Date of production:
1898
Place of production: Netherlands
Inscription: nincs
Materials: cretonne
Techniques: printed pattern
Dimensions:
length: 300 cm
width: 82 cm

The upholstery is printed in light ochre, pink and dark blue, contoured with ochre, against a cream base. The surface is decorated with alternating, slid lines of stylized flowers stems and tendrils.

At the 1898 Exhibition of Modem Applied Arts in the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, this piece was exhibited as «Cretonne with stylized leaves», among textiles of Siegfried Bings's Art Nouveau gallery from Paris.

Its companion piece can be found in the collection of the Museum (Inv.No. 52.1640).

Literature

  • Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Horányi Éva: Szecesszió. A 20. század hajnala. (Az európai iparművészet korszakai.). Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1996. - Nr. 5.3. (Pásztor Emese)