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Furnishing panel: Chinese figures
After 1774
Object Place: Bromley Hall, Middlesex, England
Medium/Technique
Cotton plain weave copperplate printed
Dimensions
190.5 x 70.5 cm (75 x 27 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Mrs. Samuel Cabot's Special Fund
Accession Number47.1549
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
Description"Chinese Figures". Bromley Hall. Panel, full loom width, with selvedges. Blue copperplate print on white ground. Man in Chinese costume, accompanied by boy with umbrella, walking up steps toward a pagoda with triple-tiered roof. Interspaces filled with sprays of fantastic, trumpet-shaped flowers, flowering branches and rococo scrolls. Cotton slightly browned; one tear, patched and darned; one small hole. The design surely after á PILLEMENT engraving.