Arthur Martin Studio (c. 1860-1914), Maison Hamot, and others
Rococo Revival Voided Ciselé Velvet with Arbor Design
1859
Scroll
- Designer: Arthur Martin Studio (c. 1860-1914)
- Manufacturer: Maison Hamot
- Manufacturer: Georges and René Hamot
Rococo Revival Voided Ciselé Velvet with Arbor Design
1859
Physical Qualities
Silk, 62 x 25 5/8 in. (157.5 x 65.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Textile Acquisition Fund
Object Number
2007.314
A rectangular length of voided ciselé velvet in Rococo Revival style featuring vocabulary from the 18th century, including candelabra composition. The pattern repeat includes two large central motifs: one featuring a vase filled with realistic roses and trumpet flowers under a rose arbor; the other composed of a spray of roses and lilacs inhabited by a pair of birds before a crescent-topped canopy. These motifs are organized within a framework of acanthus scrolls, garlands, and brackets, with musical/pastoral trophies composed of hats, instruments, and ribbons. Colors include pink, mauve (possibly a synthetic or coal tar dye), dark rose or maroon, gray-purple,turquoise blue, off-white, bronze-gold, off-white, and lighter and darker olive greens in cut and uncut pile on a voided champagne-pink cannetillé silk ground.
The panel has narrow selvages on the two long sides and cut edges at top and bottom. The edges remain unfinished.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2007; Cora Ginsburg, LLD, New York. NY; Private Collector by purchase, 2005 ; Maison Hamot.
Anita Jones, "Curator's Choice: Recent Additions to the Textiles Collection, " Baltimore Museum fo Art, Baltimore, Jean and Allan Berman Textile Gallery, April 27 - November 27, 2011.
Coutau-Bégarie,Olivier - commissaire priser, and Petitcol, expert, "Successsion Hamot," 2 ème vente, Drouot- Paris, 15 & 16 février 2005. lot 481 [note another example has same number, but is not of same design.]
Andre, Linda, and Jessica Skwire Routhier, eds. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating A Museum. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, ill. p. 127.
Inscribed: Hamot company paper tag stapled to length of textile. Removed by conservator, Louise Wheatley, 6/17/08. (Stored in file): Handwritten in black ink: "us" "hsz" Printed: "No........pon [pattern]." Handwritten: "4488" "Velours 65 fd. [fond=ground?] rose/ Cannetille Tonnelle" [abor] Handwritten at lower right: "1.55" Stamped red: "NON EN MAGASIN" Second tag [dealer's] written in hand in pencil?: "W1662a/Furnishing panel of ciselé velvet w/floral vase, trellis, garlands, baldaquin, acanthus/scrolls in beige, blue, green, red, purple on pink; French, 1850s-60s; 61" x 25" oxo $2500-"