Accession Nr.: 59.1254.1
Artist/Maker:
Manufacturer: Valero silk factory (Budapest)
Date of production:
ca. 1840
Materials: silk yarn
Techniques: knotted; woven
Dimensions:
length: 244 cm
width: 58 cm
Blue, with light blue fading into darker shades the basic colour varies with red at the two ends. The two longer sides are decorated with yellow, red, brown, the shorter ones are with white, brown, yellow and red stripes. Three sides are trimmed with fringes, knotted with twisted silk thread, alternating in accordance with the stripes. It is said to have been given by Istvan Szechenyi to Anna Lux, the wife of Miklos Wesselenyi.

Literature

  • Szerk.: Péter Márta: A klasszicizmustól a biedermeierig. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1990. - Nr. 3.111. (Tompos Lilla)
  • Tompos Lilla: Tüllök, tollak. Női viseletek és kiegészítők a 19. és 20. századból. Nádasdy Ferenc Múzeum, Sárvár, 1986. - Nr. 31.