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Design for Embroidered Floral Motifs of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France1785–1795

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Top row: three flower boughs, numbered "1 to 3", white. A rough graphite sketch of a fourth one is at right. Second row: a bunch of carrots, a flower bough, a turnip plant, a fantastical plant, numbered "4to 7". Between "4" and "5" shown: "8", a turnip plant. Third row: "9", and a small flower bough crossed yb another one, two small flower boughs, 14 and 11 respectively, a leaf bough, "13", two bunches of flowers, "10" and "12". Fourth row: flower boughs, numbered "15" to "19". Fifth row: a bushy bough "24", two leaf boughs, "23" and "22", a bough with buds and leaves, "21", leaf boughs "20". Bottom row: a small bough and an unfinished one. Written in ink, top left: "tout menace, si en veut."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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