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Les Colombes (Doves)

A work made of silk, cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, compound plain weave with self-patterning and patterning wefts with supplementary binding warps in plain, satin, and various twill interlacings, possibly executed with a jacquard attachment.

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  • A work made of silk, cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, compound plain weave with self-patterning and patterning wefts with supplementary binding warps in plain, satin, and various twill interlacings, possibly executed with a jacquard attachment.

Date:

1925

Artist:

Designed by Henri Stéphany (French, active c. 1925)
Produced by Cornille et Cie for the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes
Lyon, France

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Henri Stéphany (Designer)

Title

Les Colombes (Doves)

Place

Lyon (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1925

Medium

Silk, cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, compound plain weave with self-patterning and patterning wefts with supplementary binding warps in plain, satin, and various twill interlacings, possibly executed with a Jacquard attachment

Dimensions

262.3 × 125.1 cm (103 1/4 × 49 1/4 in.); Repeat: 131.2 × 61 cm (51 5/8 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Alice Welsh Skilling Fund; Belle M. Borland Endowment; Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Fund

Reference Number

2007.351

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