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Object Timeline

1914	Work on this object began.
1932	We acquired this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2021	You found it!

Textile (France)

This is a Textile. It was designed by Adrien Karbowsky. It is dated 1914 and we acquired it in 1932. Its medium is silk and its technique is damassée with weft floats; 4&1 satin. It is a part of the Textiles department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund.

Drawing, Garden of Monsieur de Ste. James at Neuilly, France

Drawing, Garden of Monsieur de Ste. James at Neuilly, France
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor and gouache, ruled black border in....
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1911-28-136

Here we have a textile with elaborately ornate arching shapes resembling water falling from fountains. Repeated and highly detailed, these fountains are arranged like an alternating grid with red background and varying layers of cream threads, creating a spectrum of red and cream shades. These shades of color and elongated, organic shapes create the detail of the cascading water effect. In the repetition, there are roughly 15-16 fountains slightly overlapping each other, but in the same single overall style: an oblique, ovular shape surrounded by long tear-drops of water forms overflowing and overlapping in the middle, with vertical abstract water shapes and forms emerging from the top of the oval, eventually curving into two paths to the left and right in a symmetrical composition.

Textile (USA)
rayon, silk.
Museum purchase from Pauline Cooper Noyes Fund.
1990-165-1

Its dimensions are

Warp x Weft: 240 x 71 cm (7 ft. 10 1/2 in. x 27 15/16 in.) Repeat H (pattern): 82 cm (32 5/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile (France); Designed by Adrien Karbowsky (1855 - 1945); silk; Warp x Weft: 240 x 71 cm (7 ft. 10 1/2 in. x 27 15/16 in.) Repeat H (pattern): 82 cm (32 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1932-1-72

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Accession Number 1932-1-72
Object ID 18338233