Textile, "Squire's Garden"

Artist:Charles F. AnnesleyAlexander Morton

Medium: Block-printed cotton

Geograhical Locations:

• England

Dates:ca. 1900

Dimensions: 45 x 39 in. (114.3 x 99.1 cm)

Collections:

• Decorative Arts and Design

Accession Number: 1992.237

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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