A length of woven silk damask

DESIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER DRESSER, MANUFACTURED BY JAMES W. & C. WARD, CIRCA 1871

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A length of woven silk damask
Designed by Christopher Dresser, manufactured by James W. & C. Ward, circa 1871
Formalised floral and abstract repeating pattern
24 by 24in. (61 by 61cm.)

Lot Essay

Another section from this same length is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, kindly donated by Mr. Paul Walter.
See: Kurland and Zabar Exhibition Catalogue, op. cit., front cover illustration.
Cf: Halen, op. cit., p. 65, pl. 48.
Gere and Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, London, 1993, pl. 147.

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