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Unknown manufacturer and Johnson & Faulkner (JOFA after 1943)

Furnishing Fabric with Goldfish Motif

1899

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Furnishing Fabric with Goldfish Motif

1899

Physical Qualities Rayon, cotton, 56 x 51 1/4 in. (142.2 x 130.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Brice Brown and Donald Joint, Milton, Pennsylvania, in Memory of Cardell Oliphant
Object Number 2006.77
Length of woven rayon and cotton fabric with intricate pattern of goldfish swimming and intermingling with sea grass. The design is woven in royal blue, black, white and sea green. The weave is similar to damask, using the manipulation of opposing twill weaves but with a third outlining weave (plain weave?). It is technically reversible, although the preponderence of silver/white threads on the reverse is much less dramatic than the colors on the front of the panel. The length of fabric contains both side selvages and is machine-sewn at top and bottom with heavy green/gold thread. The bottom 1-1/2 inch section of fabric is black and void of design except for a stylized logo "JF/FJ" woven in blue threads in mirror image. This is the logo of Johnson and Faulkner (later JOFA).
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2006; Brice Brown and Don Joint, Orange Chicken
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.

Rotation, End wall of Decorative Arts Hallway, 10-25-2009 to 3.11.11. Tombstone label only.

Inscribed: Woven at bottom of fabric in area of black ground: Stylized mirror image letters of "JFFJ" in blue threads. Identified as logo of Johnson and Faulkner (JOFA, Inc. post 1943).

Manufacturer , probably French

Unknown manufacturer

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