Max Snischek and Wiener Werkstätte
Elfenbein (Ivory)
1927
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, Overall: 68 3/4 × 50 1/2 in. (174.6 × 128.3 cm.)
Framed: 73 1/2 × 55 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (186.7 × 141 × 6.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr. Fund
Object Number
2001.327
The textile is a plain-woven cotton, block-printed in orange, black and grey, to produce a dense geometric design of interlocking blocks of color, squares, and checks. The repeat is 15'H x 12-1/2'W. Both side edges are selvages; the top and bottom edges are cut.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2001; Denis L. Gallion by purchase, 1999; Private Collection, Vienna , Austria by purchase; Chicago Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL.
BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.
BMA, Rotation in Hooper 7, October 5, 2004 - April 2005?
BMA, Rotation in Introductory corridor in front of Battye Gallery for European Decorative Arts, February 4, 2006 for use in Kimberly Meisten's MICA class on Art Deco and Art Nouveau tiles.)
BMA, Rotation in Hooper 7, October 5, 2004 - April 2005?
BMA, Rotation in Introductory corridor in front of Battye Gallery for European Decorative Arts, February 4, 2006 for use in Kimberly Meisten's MICA class on Art Deco and Art Nouveau tiles.)
Inscribed: 'WIENER WERKSTÄTTE' printed continuously, in black, along right selvage. '1338' is written in black marker at the lower left corner, reverse.
