Keith & Company and Hindley and Company
Hindley
1859
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Silk, 28 x 21 in. (71.1 x 53.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Straton Family Fund
Object Number
2003.140
This Gothic Revival fabric, with its ogival cartouches enclosing tracery and scrolling, stylized tendrils, is one of four woven by Keith & Co. of London for Hindley & Co., a fashionable London furnishing and upholsterer's shop. Located in the center of silk production - Spitalfields, London, Daniel Keith & Co. manufactured fabrics for leading upholsterers and often won honors at trade fairs and exhibitions. This design is documented as one of four the company presented in 1862 at the International Exhibition at South Kensington.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; Cora Ginsberg LLC, New York, NY.
Anita Jones, Baltimore Museum of Art, Filigree Spaces: Textile Installations by Piper Shepard, March 23 - September 18, 2005.
Rotation, BMA, Battye Gallery, over Kimbal & Cabus reform Gothic desk, March 27, 2008- September 18, 2008.
Rotation, BMA, Battye Gallery, over Kimbal & Cabus reform Gothic desk, March 27, 2008- September 18, 2008.
Inscribed: Original red paper label with "No. 12503/HINDLEY". No other inscription.