Silk fabric - textile wallpaper

Textile and Costume Collection

Accession Nr.: 90.21.1
Date of production:
ca. 1880
Place of production: Austria (presumably)
Materials: silk; wool yarn
Techniques: brocaded; machine-woven; patterned
Dimensions:
length: 138 cm
width: 68 cm
Gros point and petit point- like pattern on a bluish- grey background there are two cartouches with yellow frame, enclosed by red roses and green leaves, placed among polychrome flower garlands and yellow volutes shaded with rusty brown. The inside of both cartouches are similar to petit point in its effect. The upper cartouche shows a bunch of pinks, white and pink roses, and boughs with shoots, placed in a yellow vase with leaf ornaments. In the bottom cartouche there is a bunch of roses and white lilies, while the background depicts a colonnade and stairs with an urn.

Literature

  • a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 134. (Tompos Lilla)