Bed curtain fragment, red copperplate
Date1765-1800
MediumLinen warp; cotton weft
DimensionsRepeat: 38 5/8"; 48 warps per inch; 48 wefts per inch.
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1961-46,1
DescriptionTextile panel, once a bed curtain, printed in red on white copperplate in a design of large-scale birds and scrolls. A pair of parrots turn their heads to face each other in separate but conjoining C-scroll asymmetrical rococo catouches. Below, a peacock and pea hen with heads facing left share a larger rococo cartouche with shell and foliate scroll outline. Intervening areas are decorated with floral motifs. Selvages present.Label TextThis large panel was once part of a set of curtains that enclosed a tall-post bedstead. The textile designer adapted the peacock and pea hen and some of the scrolling framework from Robert Sayer's "A New Book of Birds," published in London in 1765.
1765-1800
ca. 1756
19th century
ca. 1835
