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Flora's Retinue: Rose
Walter Craneca. 1891
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Small square doily, fringed on all sides, with an ivory linen warp and a bronze-colored silk weft. A figure of a woman dressed as a rose with and sitting on the stem of a large rose, with the word ROSE in the upper left, all appearing in ivory on a bronze ground. A set of six, the doilies would have been used on the table as part of a dessert service.
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Details
- Title: Flora's Retinue: Rose
- Creator: Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915
- Date Created: ca. 1891
- Location Created: Great Britain
- Contributor: John Wilson & Sons, English, 1778 - 1816
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/199130
- Medium: Medium: linen warp, silk weft Technique: 4 & 1 satin damask
- Credit line: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund and through gift of Mrs. Edward Stern
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