1790~, France

1790~, France

Identifier
T.357-1960
Carried out by
Lasalle, Philippe de (http://data.silknow.org/activity/designer)
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
244.5 cm (length)
246.5 cm (length)
12 kg (weight)
133.5 cm (width)
134.5 cm (width)
Production time
Production place
Type of object

Description

Furnishing fabric of brocaded silk satin, possibly designed by Philippe de Lasalle, France, ca. 1790 Furnishing fabric of brocaded silk satin. There are two loom widths and a decorative border around the fabric. The design of the central field consists of baskets of flowers with ferns, a group of three putti holding a bird on a piece of string, a bunch of flowers supported by griffins, a pair of crossed arrows tied with ribbon, and two putti emptying pitchers. There are garlands of flowers and cornucopias scattered in the field. In the borders, a group of putti with birds alternates with a bunch of flowers supported by griffins. The design is mainly carried out in soft shades of green, brown, pink and white. The silk is a tissue with a green satin ground, and the pattern is bound in 3/1 twill by a proportion of the threads of the ground warp. There is one white pattern weft. All the other wefts are brocaded.