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
A small rectangular length of jacquard-woven silk furnishing fabric (possibly a damasquette*) featuring Gothic Revival design of ogival cartouches enclosing tracery patterns and scrolling, stylized tendrils in off-white on black satin ground. The sides are selvages; the top and bottom edges are cut and unhemmed.
*Damasquette: In British termonology, a damask woven with two fillings in different colors. (per Phyllis G. Tortora, ed., Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles, 7th ed. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1996, p. 162.)
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.
