Object Timeline

1925

  • Work on this object began.

1940

  • Work on this object ended.

1976

  • We acquired this object.

2001

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Sidewall

This is a sidewall. It is dated 1925–40 and we acquired it in 1976. Its medium is machine-printed on paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

This object was donated by Thomas Strahan & Co., Manufactory. It is credited Gift of Thomas Strahan Company.

  • Textile, Chrysanthemums
  • silk, artificial gold thread; twill based jacquard weave.
  • Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2003.42.
  • 48.2016.16

Its dimensions are

50 x 38 cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Sidewall; machine-printed on paper; 50 x 38 cm (19 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.); Gift of Thomas Strahan Company; 1976-48-82

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