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Textile, Chinese Figures
This is a Textile. It was printed by Bromley Hall. It is dated 1774–1811 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is cotton and its technique is printed by engraved plate on plain weave. It is a part of the Textiles department.
Chinese Figures
This textile’s whimsical chinoiserie scene was inspired by the work of French artist Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 – 1808), and printed by Bromley Hall, a prominent textile printing manufactory in Middlesex, England. Pillement’s fanciful illustrations inspired myriad textile designs, especially in the late-eighteenth century. Although this design, called Chinese Figures, features many of the artist’s signatures – oversized flowers, a winding staircase and a fanciful pagoda – its specific design source is unknown. The pattern appears in a book of Bromley Hall patterns dating from 1760 to 1800, but three blue threads in the textile’s selvedge suggest a date between 1774 and 1811.
The textile was one of several eighteenth- and nineteenth-century printed textiles donated to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum by Mrs. William D. (Sarah Sagehorn) Frishmuth (1842 – 1926). An enthusiastic collector of textiles, musical instruments and early American artifacts, Mrs. Frishmuth served as Honorary Curator of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art). Many of Cooper Hewitt’s Frishmuth textiles are represented in the Philadelphia Museum’s collection as well. Also gifts of Mrs. Frishmuth, they include a Pillement-inspired fabric.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Chinese Figures.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. William D. Frismuth.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. William D. Frismuth.
Its dimensions are
H x W: 95.9 x 70.5 cm (37 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.) Repeat H: 95.3 cm (37 1/2 in.)
Cite this object as
Textile, Chinese Figures; Printed by Bromley Hall (United Kingdom); England; cotton; H x W: 95.9 x 70.5 cm (37 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.) Repeat H: 95.3 cm (37 1/2 in.); Gift of Mrs. William D. Frismuth; 1911-7-6
