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Colefax and Fowler

Sissinghurst

1987

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Colefax and Fowler

Sissinghurst

1987

Physical Qualities Cotton, (.1): 164 x 56 in. (416.6 x 142.2 cm.) (.2): 74 1/2 x 56 in. (189.2 x 142.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number 2015.298
Very large scale floral print including two floral “bouquets” across the width with half drop vertical repeat. Bouquets include cabbage roses, rose buds, hyacinths, and other large and small blooms in groupings without stems, bows, or vases, and with trailing and/or scattered blooms between major motifs. Multiple shades of red, pink, gold, purple, green, blue, medium brown. Appears to have a large number of colors, but selvage markings do not indicate greater than ten screens.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Lutherville

Inscribed: Inscriptions: Printed on both selvages: “’SISSINGHURST’ “ A COLEFAX & FOWLER DESIGN COPYRIGHT © 1988 [arrow] TOP”

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Colefax and Fowler

b. 1937

founded 1938
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