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Lucca (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Earthenware pitcher with quilted design decoration of silver luster on cream and with swirly designed handle.

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  • Earthenware pitcher with quilted design decoration of silver luster on cream and with swirly designed handle.

Date:

1927

Artist:

Designed by Franz von Zülow (Austrian, 1883–1963)
Produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna, active 1903–1932)
Austria, Vienna

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Franz von Zülow (Designer)

Title

Lucca (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Place

Vienna (Object made in)

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Made 1927

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and complementary ground wefts; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment

Inscriptions

Inscription (label on reverse): WW

Dimensions

.193: 5.6 × 37.6 cm (2 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.) .194: 6.4 × 30.1 cm (1 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.) .195: 6.3 × 26.7 cm (2 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment

Reference Number

1991.83.193-195

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