Textile, "Squire's Garden"
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Block-printed cotton
DATES
ca. 1900
DIMENSIONS
45 x 39 in. (114.3 x 99.1 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
1992.237
CREDIT LINE
Designated Purchase Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Textile, block-printed cotton. Conventionalized garden scene. Horizontal row of red, paired, mirror-image peacocks alternating with ocher sundial between the paired birds and a stylized tree with triangular blue foliage and symmetrically paired ocher birds on lower branches. Second horizontal band with ocher trellis, each grid of which contains a red flower with blue leaves, a red and black bird house raised on a red pole and platform with seven potted topiaries symmetrically arranged between each bird house. Squire's Garden Pattern.
CONDITION: Very good; colors bright, full selvage.
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